On Montag 24 August 2009, Sebastian Beßler wrote: > 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.
turn of composite or install a xorg-server with the fedora_dont_backfill_bg_none.patch and see kde fly. > > 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. I had never seen a 'bring down X' crash. There have been some konqueror crashes in the past - but the same is true for 3.5. Compared with 3.2 or 3.4 4.3 is a lot more stable (for me). > > 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. ok, sounds like a genuine stupid bug. Can't even fixed with krandrtray? > > 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. but you know that you can make the plasma bar very small - and add a couple of them to the desktop? > > 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. I haven't found anything missing in k3b or amarok - and I don't use kdevelop or kvirc. What are you missing from k3b? > 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. people said the same when going from 1.1 to 2.0 and 2.2 to 3.0.... The only two things that I really disliked about kde 4.X is the new 'systemsettings' - I liked kcontrol. Very much. And akonadi creeping into everything.
