Using Gnome for the past 6months,got me bored, and with the release of Kubuntu KDE4. i decided to try it out. After checking out some screenshots online, i decided to download and install it. Expecting something really interesting and eye candy..
But What it had in store for me was just disspointment .KDE4 is bugs galore .for starters i had problems with the Oxygen icons (although the icons look really great) Further problems arose with the widgets after enabling a widget i couldn’t see it!! finally i gave up on that.
Perhaps something was wrong with my installation, i couldn’t even change certain settings. They were all just disabled so no changes could be made to them.
Although the taskbar and the menu great, with a clear clock. I think i’ll still stick to KDE 3.5.9 for the time being. I can now understand the reason behind Kubuntu 8.04 not being LTS.
Hopefully with the release of KDE 4.1 due in july, perhaps a more stable and bug free version can be expected…
But for now, i’m switching back to Ubuntu and Kubuntu 3,5,9
It was a bit premature to expect KDE 4 to be even half as able as KDE 3. I seriously do not understand why they didn’t just continue with the KDE 3 series.
They totally just wanted the eye candy to try and match Vista/OSX.
Pretty flashing buttons are no replacement for a solid system, and in KDE 4, we’re just not getting that yet.
It seems a bit of a joke to me that they can expect users to switch to a system with a plethora of settings/modules/features available to the user.
By: KDE 3 user on November 12, 2008
at 12:43 am
Yep. But KDE 4.3 is shining, try it now. Fantastically stable, lots of features and very pretty!
By: Daniel on August 12, 2009
at 3:27 am