On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 14:05 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
scm in seattle wrote:
> I have been using F8 for a while now and simply put it was the only distro
> that supported my laptop (fairly) well.
>
> Today I accepted what appeared to be 'typical' updates. The size of the
> update concerned me slightly (500Mb) but turned to horror when it finished
> and I rebooted.
>
> My useful KDE3 system has been replaced by KDE4! Not only that but X won't
> start because the previously installed Theme cannot be found. Oh and a
> minor issue - my net card no longer works.
>
> I'd like to point out that KDE4, by it's own authors is not intended to be
> for mainstream use:
>
>
http://en.opensuse.org/KDE4
opensuse != upstream kde
> "KDE 4.0 is only expected to be used by early adopters, not every KDE 3.5
> user...
True, fedora is all about innovation and early adoption of technologies, and
isn't for everyone.
Yabut..
Even Sidux won't yet touch KDE4, and that's right out there on the scary
edge and KDE-centric to boot. One must learn to read the omens.
> KDE4 should NEVER be installed over KDE without explicit
permission of the
> user. Ever. Period.
Good, keep using your tried-and-true KDE-3.5 on F8.
Was getting KDE4 on F9 a surprise? I thought we had done a pretty good job
of shouting from the rooftops.
:-)
Couple days ago at the Fedora booth at LinuxTag I heard a lot of that in
person.
But it didn't so much sound like "Dude, check it out, this baby is
driving KDE4 already!" It was a lot more like, "Even if you're from
KDE-land, you're gonna wanna go with Gnome on this one, Bud."
Andy
-- rex