Release schedule clarifications

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Thu Oct 25 11:31:51 BST 2007


On 25.10.07 13:12:16, Frerich Raabe wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 11:50:32AM +0200 or thereabouts, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > Not unless somebody resurrects kicker and I pretty much trust Aaron that
> > this won't happen in time for 4.0, given that the code has been
> > unmaintained for quite some time now.
> 
> Yes, I was told that it was unmaintained. I guess Kicker & KDesktop as of
> KDE 3.5.8 are in the best state,

As Aaron just pointed out on IRC, kicker+kdesktop are not that much
better than plasma applets. A small simple icon moved on my kde3 desktop
makes kdesktop go beyond 10% and X11 go to something like 30% cpu usage.

> Is there no alternative?

Not that I'm aware of, nobody started to work on any desktop/panel,
besides the plasma people.

Andreas

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