Comments on: Finally Satisfied With KDE 4 http://gustavonarea.net/blog/posts/finally-satisfied-with-kde-4/ Just a social techie Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:54:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dennis Wronka http://gustavonarea.net/blog/posts/finally-satisfied-with-kde-4/comment-page-1/#comment-21673 Dennis Wronka Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:15:24 +0000 http://gustavonarea.net/?p=65#comment-21673 It somehow seems that I am the only person who actually likes KDE 4.0. Yeah, I know it's got its problems, and surely more than just a fair share. But it is quite usable, although some things surely are still missing. I am looking forward to get to play with KDE 4.1 when Fedora 10 comes out, but until then I'll be happy enough with 4.0, especially now that I finally got it running in 1280x1024 on my PC. You may not remember KDE 1, but I can tell you that you'll gladly prefer to use KDE 4.0 over it. Not that KDE 1 has been unstable or plain crap, it's been good, but compared to later KDEs it just looked ugly, and just didn't offer yet all the comfort of a modern desktop environment. Also many people seem to forget that KDE 4 is a big redesign of a really big project, and not "just another update". It's a major step forward, and that has its cost. Contrary to many people I also do not think that KDE 4 has been released prematurely. As said, I am aware of its problems, but if nobody gets to use it those problems just will be discovered a lot slower. Having it released to the general public of course will provoke some angry comments, but overall I think it only improves the system. And I am pretty sure that this is the exact reason why it KDE 4.0 has replaced KDE 3.5 in Fedora 9. So, overall, KDE 4 is a big step forward, and it looks awesome. With the release of 4.1 a lot of problems surely will be gone, and finally most of the K-stuff (like KMail and others) is there, so people maybe can stop complaining now... ;-) It somehow seems that I am the only person who actually likes KDE 4.0.
Yeah, I know it’s got its problems, and surely more than just a fair share. But it is quite usable, although some things surely are still missing.
I am looking forward to get to play with KDE 4.1 when Fedora 10 comes out, but until then I’ll be happy enough with 4.0, especially now that I finally got it running in 1280×1024 on my PC.

You may not remember KDE 1, but I can tell you that you’ll gladly prefer to use KDE 4.0 over it. Not that KDE 1 has been unstable or plain crap, it’s been good, but compared to later KDEs it just looked ugly, and just didn’t offer yet all the comfort of a modern desktop environment.

Also many people seem to forget that KDE 4 is a big redesign of a really big project, and not “just another update”. It’s a major step forward, and that has its cost.
Contrary to many people I also do not think that KDE 4 has been released prematurely. As said, I am aware of its problems, but if nobody gets to use it those problems just will be discovered a lot slower. Having it released to the general public of course will provoke some angry comments, but overall I think it only improves the system. And I am pretty sure that this is the exact reason why it KDE 4.0 has replaced KDE 3.5 in Fedora 9.

So, overall, KDE 4 is a big step forward, and it looks awesome. With the release of 4.1 a lot of problems surely will be gone, and finally most of the K-stuff (like KMail and others) is there, so people maybe can stop complaining now… ;-)

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