Art Alexion on 3 Mar 2007 17:01:53 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Evolution vs. Thunderbird


On Friday 02 March 2007 17:56, Matthew Rosewarne wrote:
> On Friday 02 March 2007 08:44, Art Alexion wrote:
> > I'm not so sure that the best way to test KDE is to try a major upgrade
> > as soon as it is released.  It is likely to have some problems in the
> > first iteration that won't be fixed until, say 4.1 or at least 4.0.3.  On
> > Ubuntu, I'd stick with 3.5.5, if you can, 3.5.6 if you have to.  If you
> > try out KDE with 4.0 as soon as it comes out, I fear you will be destined
> > to dislike it.
>
> KDE 4 is being tested very heavily, there shouldn't be any real problems
> with its initial release, just as there weren't with KDE 3.0.  I would
> advise using KDE 4 whenever your distribution makes it the default version.
>  That said, the primary focus of the KDE 4.0 will be to establish the
> frameworks that will be around until 5.0, some of the nifty stuff that
> takes full advantage of those frameworks will come out later in the release
> cycle.

I agree that one would have more problems using an older version than the 
default for their distro.  It is because there will be a major change in the 
frameworks that I caution upgrading on a production machine until it has been 
in wide use for a while.


>
> As for 3.5.6, it's the stable branch, I'm running it right now in Debian
> and there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to stay with 3.5.5 if 3.5.6 is
> available.

My advice may apply to Kubuntu only.  I have read a lot of posts on the 
kubuntu-users list from people who had things working in 3.5.5 that were not 
working in 3.5.6.  Kubuntu tends to customize KDE a bit, and the problems 
could stem from those customizations and not the upstream release.

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