[clue] Gnome Shell [TALK/opinion]

[Dan Kulinski]

Actually KDE 4.0 was a developer release.  People treated it as a full
release and were disappointed with missing functionality.  I don't exactly
recall but 4.1 or 4.2 was the actual full release ready for every day users.

Dan

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Mike Bean <beandaemon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Linux box is broke again.  Window manager isn't booting/starting.
> Probably
> > try to troubleshoot it in a few days, but I must confess I'm losing
> patience
> > with Gnome Shell.
> ...
> > was curious to ask some of the "lifers" if it was like this when KDE
> broke itself.  (I seem to recall hearing many complaints about KDE 4 and
> many of the impressions I'd gotten said that it
> > took YEARS for KDE to clean itself up to its current state.)
>
> Two things.
>
> 1. I'm not sure that KDE broke itself. There is always a little bit of
> jitter after a new release. That's all.
>
> 2. In my experience, with the appropriate distro, it only took YEAR
> not YEARS to locate a stable release. At the time I was still running
> sidux (now renamed). I tried Kbuntu then stumbled on PCLinuxOS where I
> am now. I put up a later version of Kbuntu a couple of months back,
> only to find that it seemed to be stuck at a 2-3 year old point of
> usability (IMO sucks badly).
>
> KDE4 is just different enough that not everyone has been smart enough
> to exploit the new structure.
>
> Take this with a grain of salt, however. I have few demands for a
> desktop. I don't even use a gui file manager! On my netbook I run
> pclos LXDE, and that provides 99% of everything I need. But the pclos
> KDE4 dektop has worked just fine for 2+ years, so why muck with it.
>
> Another disclaimer: I've never much liked Gnome, and I wouldn't touch
> Unity with a long fork.
>
> --
> Collins Richey
>      If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
>      of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
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