Re: [PLUG] kde4 experience- not so good

2008-09-11 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Chetan S wrote: > While we could gripe as much as we want it certainly helps filing > smaller , verifiable bug-reports to get the fixes / changes we want in there. > > That brings me to the question - > how easy is that, exactly, in KDE4 ? Well bugs can be filed in http://bugs.kde.org. That just

Re: [PLUG] kde4 experience- not so good

2008-09-11 Thread Chetan S
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arun Khan wrote: >> Sure, we can write bug reports on these but should not they have been caught >> during unit/integration testing? These are basic HMI issues. > > Unit/integration testing? How many projects do you thin

Re: [PLUG] kde4 experience- not so good

2008-09-10 Thread Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui
I updated to kde 4.1.1. many crash issues are fixed. Konq, dolhine and kate are working fine. On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Atanu Datta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, August 30, 2008 12:09 pm, Jayant Kairi said: >> On 8/29/08, Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>

Re: [PLUG] kde4 experience- not so good

2008-08-30 Thread Atanu Datta
On Sat, August 30, 2008 12:09 pm, Jayant Kairi said: > On 8/29/08, Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm using kde4.1 on OpenSuse 11. I'm using from sometime. There are >> a lot problems are still there. krunner, dolphin, kate often crashes, >> Plasma is working well

Re: [PLUG] kde4 experience- not so good

2008-08-30 Thread Jayant Kairi
On 8/29/08, Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using kde4.1 on OpenSuse 11. I'm using from sometime. There are > a lot problems are still there. krunner, dolphin, kate often crashes, > Plasma is working well. > My friends pls tell ur experience. > -- > Sharique uddi

Re: [PLUG] kde4 experience- not so good

2008-08-30 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Saturday 30 August 2008 17:46:16 Sarang Lakare wrote: > Also, kde4 was released under the release early - release often model > and was clearly mentioned as not for production use (hence no > distribution picked it up as default). 4.1 I heard is more stable. Yes it is. I just upgraded to 4.1.1.

Re: [PLUG] kde4 experience- not so good

2008-08-30 Thread Sarang Lakare
You need to realize that unless a kde-centric distribution like kubuntu/mandriva include kde4 as default, it has not matured enough for prime time usage. Most of the experiences here are probably based on optional installation of kde4. So you are "trying" it out which is good, but that shouldn't be

Re: [PLUG] kde4 experience- not so good

2008-08-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Arun Khan wrote: > > Developers just writing the code and releasing it - for unstable/alpha/ > may be acceptable for alpha/beta but not in released versions. Bugs are going to be carried over to released version unless many people test and report feedback. > > IMO, there was hype when KDE 4.

Re: [PLUG] kde4 experience- not so good

2008-08-30 Thread Pranav Peshwe
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 30 Aug 2008, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Arun Khan wrote: > > > Sure, we can write bug reports on these but should not they have > > > been caught during unit/integration testing? These are basic HMI > > > issues. >

Re: [PLUG] kde4 experience- not so good

2008-08-30 Thread Arun Khan
On Saturday 30 Aug 2008, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Arun Khan wrote: > > Sure, we can write bug reports on these but should not they have > > been caught during unit/integration testing? These are basic HMI > > issues. > > Unit/integration testing? How many projects do you think has any of > those?

Re: [PLUG] kde4 experience- not so good

2008-08-29 Thread Gaurav Pant
Hi All In last i had a similar opinion about KDE4 till last meeting because what expectations we had from KDE 4 was some improvements over KDE 3. During the last PLUG meet Aditya G gave a Demo of KDE 4. Please understand KDE 4 comes with a totally new concept of a Desktop, of course which is a b

Re: [PLUG] kde4 experience- not so good

2008-08-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Arun Khan wrote: > Sure, we can write bug reports on these but should not they have been caught > during unit/integration testing? These are basic HMI issues. Unit/integration testing? How many projects do you think has any of those? Do check how many major projects have anything resembling tha

Re: [PLUG] kde4 experience- not so good

2008-08-29 Thread Arun Khan
--- On Sat, 8/30/08, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > It probably wouldn't have taken much time but this is a > rewrite and > feedback helps. How many bug reports have you filed? On principle I agree with above, but IMO KDE4 should have been released only when it had basic functionality in place vis a v

Re: [PLUG] kde4 experience- not so good

2008-08-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Pranav Peshwe wrote: > IMO, KDE 4.x sucks _big_time_! > I always wonder, what amount of code it would have taken them to retain the > Ctrl + Alt + D shortcut from KDE 3.x :-/ > And many such things... It probably wouldn't have taken much time but this is a rewrite and feedback helps. How many b

Re: [PLUG] kde4 experience- not so good

2008-08-29 Thread Pranav Peshwe
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm using kde4.1 on OpenSuse 11. I'm using from sometime. There are > a lot problems are still there. krunner, dolphin, kate often crashes, > Plasma is working well. > My friends pls tell ur expe

Re: [PLUG] kde4 experience- not so good

2008-08-29 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
> I'm using kde4.1 on OpenSuse 11. I'm using from > sometime. There are > a lot problems are still there. krunner, dolphin, kate > often crashes, > Plasma is working well. > My friends pls tell ur experience. > -- > Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui I tried it only once...KDE 4 series is a great

[PLUG] kde4 experience- not so good

2008-08-29 Thread Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui
Hi, I'm using kde4.1 on OpenSuse 11. I'm using from sometime. There are a lot problems are still there. krunner, dolphin, kate often crashes, Plasma is working well. My friends pls tell ur experience. -- Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui (C++/C# Developer, IT Consultant) http://safknw.blogspot.com