On Monday 24 September 2007 5:22:13 pm Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Sunday 23 September 2007, Tom Albers wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In an effort to see how things look just before the tagging (beta 3 is > > planned to be tagged the 26th), I checked out and build KDE4. > > > > I just wanted to let you know that currently there is no panel and no start > > menu. That means everything has to be done by krunner. A lot of plasma > > applets I tried made plasma crash and alt-tab was barely usable. I know > > kde4 is about much more that plasma, but the user experience is currently > > not very good. In my opinion it would be a mistake to tag KDE in this > > state. And I'm almost crying when I say this. > > one could simply tag workspace/libs/plasma and workspace/plasma from a week > ago... then you get a panel, but still no working applications menu as that > never was there. that's next on my list of things to do; unfortunately the > other two groups that may have been working on such a thing have failed to > produce anything useful for kde 4.0. =( so it's one more thing for me to do; > i could go as simple as porting the kicker kmenu in all it's crapitude (it's > the easiest thing to do, but would be dissapointing). >
I don't think we should have another beta without a panel. And it shouldn't be old stuff either. It should be new goodness. My opinion: delay the next beta until we have a more functional workspace. Aaron: we know there is an awful lot of pressure on you. Not fair. But, can you give us an estimate of a somewhat-operational Plasma panel? 2 weeks? 2 months? 6 months? If 2 weeks, maybe we can delay the beta a bit. If 2 months, might as well have the next beta on schedule. If 6 months, we can delay the next beta a couple months. -Allen _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team