I don't use KDE, but I like very much that its file manager (what's it
called this week?) has this kind of attention to detail. It impressed me
the minute I saw it. Of course users can't make an informed decision
without access to relevant information.
Perhaps if the concern is the delay required
I had a similar experience upgrading. I'm not entirely sure if the bug
is the same, so this comment might warrant its own bug identifier.
Here's the whole story.
I've never done a successful upgrade from either CD or online, so I
completely copied my root and home partitions to a spare disk before