Re: KDE and Squeeze
Cassiano Leal wrote:
> On 9 March 2010 00:22, Sam Leon <debian@net153.net> wrote:
>> lrhorer wrote:
>>>
>>> I loaded up an embedded system with Debian recently. I was having
>>> problems relating to the older kernel in Lenny, so I want ahead and
>>> installed Squeeze. I got things working, but I was mortified with
>>> KDE4, which installed with Squeeze. It's horrible. I mean really,
>>> really bad. KDE3 wasn't exactly spectacular, but it was good
>>> enough. This hunk of junk, though, is really quite unacceptable.
>>> Ignoring the fact that Kpackage was just plain broken - which I
>>> assume will be fixed before Squeeze goes gold - the UI for KDE4 is
>>> brain dead. I have several servers and a couple of workstations
>>> which will sooner or later need to be upgraded to Squeeze, but I do
>>> not want KDE4 on them in the shape it is now. Is there a way to
>>> allow everything else to upgrade, but hold back KDE and its
>>> dependants? Barring that, is there a way to get KDE4 to look and
>>> behave like KDE3?
>
> I have been using KDE4 since 4.0 came out. Never really been a big fan
> of either KDE or GNOME in the past, but the KDE4 series, the ideas and
> the technology behind it, and especially the VERY RAPID evolution have
> caught me -- have a peek at KDE 4.4, I reckon you'll have a nice
> surprise: it's beautiful (IMO, of course), VERY customizable, snappy,
What sub-version of KDE4 is being distributed with Squeeze? Whatever
it is, I hated it.
> has plenty of desktop paradigms to choose from and I'm sure you can
> get it to behave more or less like KDE3 with a bit of customization,
> even though I totally miss the point there -- apart from the rant.
See my comments in the response above. KDE2 was OK. 'Not great, but
OK. KDE3 was not as good. KDE4 seems like it is terrible. How much
longer is this trend going to continue?
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