Links 27/06/2008: Limo and Lips Joined by the Hips
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-06-27 11:20:52 UTC
- Modified: 2008-06-27 11:20:52 UTC
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Comments
robert enderle
2008-06-27 17:52:26
KDE is getting a lot of flack for being what it is not and Id love to hear his defense but he closed his blog.
KDE4.04 is not a beta but an alpha , a framework for the apps in 4.1. I blame KDE for not doing a good job of explain this, distros for jumping the gun and saying 4 could replace the 3.5 version and the people in the media who should know better like SJVN for saying things like 'this was so bad I might not come back to KDE in a long time'.
I find it strange that he would close his blog now.
Woods
2008-06-27 18:05:39
Also see PlanetKDE ( http://planetkde.org/ ) mainly Troy Unrau's rather harsh rant ( http://troy-at-kde.livejournal.com/17753.html ) and Jason Harris' rather ridiculous (unless he was being ironic) follow-up ( http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3535 )
As far as I can understand, Aaron basically burned out with the avalanche of poisonous commentary from forums and mailing lists (regarding KDE4 et Plasma)
(disclaimer: I haven't really followed it that much, hence the quick link-collection)
Roy Schestowitz
2008-06-27 18:53:25
<schestowitz> Eruaran, see this when you get the time: http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/06/26/08/17/19-kde4-aseigo-troy-the-users-and-t <kentma> okay, will take a look <schestowitz> Eruaran, more here http://www.ereslibre.es/?p=107 and here http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3534
They just need some privacy for development. It's all fine. Use 3.5.x for the time being.