KDE4 release discussion, Was: KIO::NetAccess static methods question

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 25 October 2007, Robert Knight wrote:
> > Probably, we should just remember this and make sure to tell everybody
> > that KDE4 will definitely get much faster in later versions, "as seen in
> > KDE3".
>
> I really don't think that will sit well.  Plus, those KDE 4
> applications which have seen a little tuning perform quite acceptably
> in a KDE 3 session - and that is my Qt/KDE debug build on a 4 year-old
> laptop with compile-time optimisations disabled.  Parts of KDE 4
> absolutely fly with an optimised build.

this is the very important ballance point imho: there is a lot of great stuff 
already there.

as such, there's enough good stuff to talk about, show and point to.

which mitigates the whole chicken-little scenario.

and yes, OSVs are completely free to decide to integrate bits of 4 into 3. 
SUSE is already doing that in fact.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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