Bits by Ben » kde http://ben.liveforge.org a Gentoo Linux geek blogging about free software and technology Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:44:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 KDE 4.1 unleashed http://ben.liveforge.org/2008/10/10/kde-41-unleashed http://ben.liveforge.org/2008/10/10/kde-41-unleashed#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:40:00 +0000 Ben tag:ben.liveforge.org,2008:kde-4-1-unleashed/1223670224 First of all I want to say kudos to everyone who worked on getting KDE 4.1 into the portage tree and ironing out issues. Just lurking (mostly) in #gentoo-kde, I have seen how people have worked hard to bring the best possible KDE-4 experience to Gentoo users. The past months have been a stressful time for our KDE team, and they deserve to be rewarded, now that all that has led to good results.

Even so, and notwithstanding the excellent work done by our devs and helpful users, I am of the opinion that KDE 4 is not yet up to the task of replacing the 3.5 version, both in terms of features and stability. I will keep using KDE 3.5 (and LXDE) for now. But I’ll give it another shot when 4.2 comes out.

For the time being, I’m masking kde-4.1 and related packages. Other people that are running an ~arch box, and want to keep just kde-3.5 and not also install the “upgrade” to 4.1, may be interested in my kde-4.1 mask file, that can be dropped in /etc/portage/package.mask/ (that’s why it is handy to have that as a directory, not a file).

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