szal...@szalkai.net schrieb: > Now that this exciting little flamewar has finished, and everybody is > friends again :), could you Duncan please give some examples of major > breakage in KDE4?
I'm not Duncan but I have 5 reasons not to switch to kde4 atm. 1) Speed: I have a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ with 8GB of ram and a Radeon HD 3600 card but still kde 4.3 most of the time feels like walking through mud. 2) Crashes: kde 4.3 crashes way to often, sometimes it even brings X to its knees. Kde 3.5.10 is solid as a rock. 3) Screen-setup: I have to monitores connected to my pc static in xorg as two seperated displays :0.0 and :0.1. If I start kde <4.4-svn I have both screens on my main monitor and the second is just as good as dead. There is a patch for this in svn (or is it git now?) and as much as I can say by testing a few live-builds this point will be gone by next release. 4) Design: I have a very small design with two small bars at the bottom and on the right side. I can't create a design in kde4.x so far that consumes as few space on my monitor as i have it in kde 3. The fifth point on my list is that many of the functions and (3rd party) kde programms I use day by day aren't there yet at all or only with lack of functions and mostly in late alpha-state: k3b, amarok, kdevelop, kvirc to just name a few. The last reason I stick with kde 3.5.10 for a while is that working with kde 4.x just doesn't feel right. Switching to kde4 is like switching to a completly different DE. KDE 4 isn't kde anymore, it is something absolutly different that calls itself kde. Greetings Sebastian Beßler
