[kde-linux] When the KDE can be robust and stable enough for enterprise users?

[Rex Dieter]

Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 11:14:09 +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote:
>>On Monday, 2015-04-13, 17:18:44, Franklin Wang wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
>>> 
>>> what's your opinion?
>>
>>You mean Plasma 5?
> 
> Will window layering implementation [1] get fixed some day, so that all
> professional software could be used with KDE?

Got any bug references to document this?

-- Rex

> [1]
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 07:58:28 -0400
> From: Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>
> Cc: ardour-users <ardour-users at lists.ardour.org>
> Subject: Re: [Ardour-Users] Ardour 4.0 rc3
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 9:37 PM, j. wrote:
>>   Only option at that point was
>> to kill Ardour.  System is Linux Mint 17, 64 bits, using KDE.  File
>> dialog of above directory attached.
>>
> 
> we have considered officially announcing that KDE cannot be supported.
> 
> Their window managers do not implement an important part of the
> Freedesktop standards for window layering. They have dismissed the bug
> reports about this (which started with the GIMP, which had/has the same
> problems) as "Will not fix". This is unacceptable. KDE is the only
> platform to have no sane window layering implementation. Our code works
> on Windows, OS X and with every other Linux desktop environment.
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