[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems) and my problems

2011-04-18 Thread John Longer
else would one expect them to do? Some of them try to provide credible desktops. John From: Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net To: kde@mail.kde.org Sent: Mon, 18 April, 2011 4:47:05 Subject: [kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems) and my problems John Longer posted on Sun, 17

[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)

2011-04-14 Thread Rafa Griman
Hi :) On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Clemens Eisserer linuxhi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I use KDE since 1998/1999 with kde-1.1 beeing the first version I remember having used. I always found it to be simply the best Desktop Environment, escpecially during KDE-2.x/3.x times. Since KDE-4 I

[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)

2011-04-14 Thread Billie Walsh
On 04/14/2011 01:45 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hi, I use KDE since 1998/1999 with kde-1.1 beeing the first version I remember having used. I always found it to be simply the best Desktop Environment, escpecially during KDE-2.x/3.x times. Since KDE-4 I am not that happy anymore. Early

[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)

2011-04-14 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, I suppose we all have our favorite parts of KDE. For me it's Quanta. For whatever reason the devs at wherever have pretty much decided it was not worth the effort to bring it along with KDE 4.x. There is one person trying to bring it along and I hope someday he manages to do it. No

[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)

2011-04-14 Thread Billie Walsh
On 04/14/2011 08:59 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 14 April 2011 13:23:33 Billie Walsh wrote: On 04/14/2011 01:45 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hi, I use KDE since 1998/1999 with kde-1.1 beeing the first version I remember having used. I always found it to be simply the best Desktop

[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)

2011-04-14 Thread Peter Nikolic
On Thursday 14 April 2011 14:34:47 Billie Walsh wrote: On 04/14/2011 08:20 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hi, I suppose we all have our favorite parts of KDE. For me it's Quanta. For whatever reason the devs at wherever have pretty much decided it was not worth the effort to bring it

[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)

2011-04-14 Thread John Layt
On Thursday 14 Apr 2011 15:29:17 Billie Walsh wrote: On 04/14/2011 08:59 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 14 April 2011 13:23:33 Billie Walsh wrote: I suppose we all have our favorite parts of KDE. For me it's Quanta. For whatever reason the devs at wherever have pretty much decided it

[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)

2011-04-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/14/2011 09:45 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: [...] Another problem is the release cycle. The cycle is so short, that even many bugs reported during alpha stage aren't fixed. At release-time, devs are already working on new features, often not backporting their fixes. So you end up again

[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)

2011-04-14 Thread Clemens Eisserer
In my opinion, the major problem here is not the timing, but rather that after putting version 4.N out, focus switches to version 4.N+1 instead of focusing 90% on 4.N.1, .2, etc.  This way, a truly nice, stable and solid release in never achieved.  The devs always hunt after the next big

[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)

2011-04-14 Thread Duncan
John Layt posted on Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:17:12 +0100 as excerpted: On Thursday 14 Apr 2011 15:29:17 Billie Walsh wrote: On 04/14/2011 08:59 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 14 April 2011 13:23:33 Billie Walsh wrote: I suppose we all have our favorite parts of KDE. For me it's Quanta. For