KDE's rough edges... what are your experiences?

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday, 2013-10-31, 10:57:51, Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:54:50AM +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Thursday, 2013-10-31, 11:48:10, Michael wrote:
> > > Am Wed, 30 Oct 2013 18:34:56 +0100
> > > 
> > > schrieb Kevin Krammer <krammer at kde.org>:
> > > > On Wednesday, 2013-10-30, 18:00:46, Michael wrote:
> > > > > And on the thread itself, I did not talk about any applications, I
> > > > > only speak of the UI + widgets and its issues. I know the threshold
> > > > > might be fuzzy there sometimes.
> > > > 
> > > > Right. There are more precise ways to address different products,
> > > > e.g. Plasma desktop or Plasma workspace(s), but anything than using
> > > > the project/vendor name is usally already an improvement.
> > > > 
> > > > > So, KDE4 is officially abandoned, great! :-(
> > > > 
> > > > No.
> > > > As explained in short and in length :)
> > > 
> > > From what I wanted to know, it generally is. That not
> > > all-and-everything KDE-related is obsolete is quite clear.
> > 
> > I guess it also depends on the definition of abandoned. Usually that means
> > discarded or remaining untouched, etc.
> > If we define abandoned as no new extensions that is of course a different
> > case.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Kevin
> 
> My main concern with 4 is not whether features are being added but
> whether bugs are being removed.  What are the prospects for that?

I can see bugfix commits going into the kde-workspaces KDE/4.11 branch so I'd 
say it isn't a matter of prospects but happening as planned.

> And has anything been done in the KDE5 cycle to assure higher levels of
> reliability?

Don' know, I am not involved in either workspace development nor the Qt5 
porting efforts.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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