On Wed May 20 2009 03:40:48 David wrote: > > That won't work anymore, KDE 4.2 is in testing. > > Thanks, noted. I'll probably downgrade my KDE package versions to > Lenny, but keep the rest on Sid, for as long as I can, and then either > downgrade everything to Lenny, try KDE 4.2 again (maybe I can get used > to it and work around all the problems I had with it when I tried > recently), or use a different window manager.
For years we were using mostly Stable for servers and mostly Testing for workstations. We also had a few Fedora and Ubuntu. We've tried KDE 4 a few times over the last two years and every attempt has been a disaster - a disaster compounded by the excessively rosy claims from upstream. Sure KDE 4 is usable - in the same way that Windows 3.1 was usable - but users would kill me if we tried to make them use Windows 3.1 in 2009. We can no longer run Testing anywhere. Eventually I expect we'll run into video driver problems on new hardware but thus far we've been OK with Lenny. Thanks to the Debian KDE team for keeping KDE 3.5 in Lenny. KDE 3.5 may or may not ever see another bug fix, but it will be a long long time before KDE 4 catches up with KDE 3.5. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org