It isn't a good answer, but it's the truth whether you like it or not. Before the official release, the only people who would use the (unfinished) product are people who know what they're doing and who are willing to experiment (i.e. mostly developers and testers). Most people aren't like this, so the software is only tested in a limited combination of system setups and configurations. KDE3 probably works quite well on most of the developers' and testers' computers, and so was judged to be ready for release. Once the official release is made, an endless minefield of possibilities is opened as ordinary users decide to try this "stable" release. Things are bound to go wrong, and you'll probably have to wait for a 3.1 release to have decent stability.
This is normal, and is to be expected. It happened with KDE 1.0, GNOME 1.0 and KDE 2.0. I am expecting it to happen to GNOME 2.0. It happens to commercial software as well, but many companies have the resources to test their software on a variety of configurations before releasing. Also, KDE is far broader in scope than most commercial applications, so there is more that can go wrong. On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 21:06:48 +1000, "Peter Nunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, but that really isn't a good answer. Surely if its been released > (and this isn't a release candidate any more) it should at least run. > > If it was still Beta, I would expect these sort of problems. It isn't.. > > Not bad mouthing you I hasten to add, but its not doing there cause any good > I wouldn't have thought. > > Peter. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan > > Sent: Sunday, 7 April 2002 8:49 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE3.0 a BIG disappointment. > > > > > > On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 19:45:45 +1000, "Peter Nunn" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > KDE 3.0 is simply not ready yet... > > > > > > I spent 24 hours downloading it (yes, I'm on a dialup), > > installed it with > > > the instructions given here (and it worked fine). > > > > > > However, > > > > > > every time I log in it takes me through the stupid setup screen. Its now > > > lost my panel for some reason (and I can't get it back), and I > > can't get the > > > sound working at all (all of which are fine under 2.2). > > > > > > This is a real bummer because it looks so much better. > > > > > > Has anyone heard of a workaround for this mess yet? I've > > searched, but not > > > turned up anything. > > > > Instability is to be expected from a x.0 release. Many major > > infrastructural > > changes were made, and things will take a while to settle down. > > This is the > > reason why MandrakeSoft didn't include KDE 3.0 in Mandrake 8.2, > > despite much > > protest. > > > > When KDE 2.0 was released, it refused to run on my system. I had > > to wait for the > > 2.1 release before it was of any use to me. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "The "Internet" cannot be removed from your Desktop. Do you want to delete the "Internet" now?" -- Microsoft Windows 95
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