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Am Sonntag, 23. August 2009 19:04:45 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: |
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> On Sonntag 23 August 2009, Duncan wrote: |
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> > Those of you kde-ers, particularly kde3-ers (aka stable kde-ers), |
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> > heads-up! |
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> > |
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> > If you aren't aware of the current gentoo kde (especially kde3) |
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> > situation, you *NEED* to subscribe to the gentoo-desktop list (normally |
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> > lower activity than here, so it shouldn't be a huge burden), AND check |
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> > the archives for the last couple months. |
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> bullshit |
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> |
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> > The short version: kde3 is likely going to be masked, soon, apparently |
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> > very possibly before any kde4 is ever marked stable. The current plan is |
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> > to leave kde3 in-tree but masked, probably until early next year, at |
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> > which point it'll move to an overlay, kde-sunset or similarly named, |
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> > where it'll be maintained primarily by interested users. |
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> maybe, you you don't have to be subscribed to -desktop to find that. |
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> Anyway, without an official announcement it is just a plan. |
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> <cut unimportant crap > |
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> > Of course, qt3 upon which kde3 depends is in similar or even worse shape |
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> > (except that it was in arguably better shape when it went unsupported, as |
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> > until then, people had been paid to keep it working, even if they'd have |
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> > otherwise preferred to be working on the newer versions), apparently not |
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> > supported any longer by its own (commercial FLOSS) upstream. |
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> and here we come to the real stuff. qt3 is planned to be removed from the |
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> tree. Nothing else. |
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> |
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> > Unfortunately, all this is complicated by the state of kde4, in many ways |
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> > a mirror image of kde3 -- specifically like a mirror image in that it's |
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> > similar, but nicely reversed. kde4 is getting all sorts of developer |
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> > attention, but again despite what upstream says, it's anything /but/ as |
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> > stable and smoothly functional and polished as kde3 is. |
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> bullshit |
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> > I'm normally an |
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> > early adopter, running ~arch and in fact often unmasking and even |
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> > reaching into overlays for fresh versions, often beta or rc, sometimes |
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> > even live-vcs versions direct from the upstream repositories. |
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> you are also writing way too much. |
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> >4.3 (as every kde4 version so far) is markedly |
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> > better than the previous version, but there's still a LOT of broken |
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> > functionality, features still rapidly evolving, etc. |
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> extreme bullshit |
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> |
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> > kde4.3 therefore at what I'd normally consider the late-beta stage. |
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> > User's who actually used and depended on the previous version for |
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> > anything beyond basic functionality shouldn't be upgrading yet unless |
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> > they're prepared to spend HOURS, in this case, DAYS, even WEEKS, |
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> |
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> even more bullshit. |
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> emerge @kde4.3 |
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> some hours later: perfectly fine working kde 4.3. No bugs, stable, all |
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> funtionality needed there. |
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> So instead of talking you typical annoying much worded crap, could you |
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> please point out the problems with 4.3? Examples? |
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> > upgrading, finding fixes and workarounds for bugs, even switching to |
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> > alternative software solutions at times when the functionality simply |
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> > isn't there. I estimate I've spent about 80 hours on the upgrade and |
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> > reconfiguring, all told. |
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> nice. I spent maybe 3h. All told. |
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> > switch, and users WILL need to spend SOME time reconfiguring and |
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> > adapting, but perhaps 20-40 hours is reasonable, NOT 80! 80 hours, two |
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> > weeks of full-time 40-hour-week equivalent work, simply indicates how |
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> > immature and broken some aspects of the project still are, |
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> and more bullshit. |
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> So, name your examples. |
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> And I didn't even bother to read the rest. |
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> duncan, if I want to read a book, I buy a book, This is an INTERNATIONAL |
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> list. We are not living in nightmare land where everybody's first language |
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> is english. |
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> Reading your emails takes more time than installing kde. |
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> All you had said to this point could have been said in two simple sentences |
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> too: |
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> kde 3.5 is planned to go away into an overlay because qt3 is not supported |
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> anymore |
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> kde 4.X has still some problems. |
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> See? See the difference to you writings? Short, compact, same message. Oh, |
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> and of course I left out the bullshit. |
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> But no, you do have to write a freaking essay. |
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> In the future: keep it short. |
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In my opinion duncan is one of the people around here which make this list |
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very useful and the information he is sharing within his emails is one of the |
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reasons why I didn't unsubscribe yet. |
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I like duncans emails :). |
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Rgds |
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Bernhard |