Regular users happy with KDE 4.4.0 SC?

[Martin Kho]

> On Wednesday 24 February 2010 10:46:18 Martin Kho wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Today KDE 4.4.0 came in on my production system - fully updated FC12.
> > 
> > First, congratulations and thanks for the hard and mostly good work!
> > 
> > Next, I was hit by (1) errors during the start of akonadi and (2) a
> > messagebox that was telling me that nepumuk is disabled.
> > 
> > I've followed the discussions on fedora-kde, so I knew what could happen.
> > But what would a regular user think? Is KDE 4.4.0 some what to early
> > pushed?
> 
> Most of the problems seem to have been caused by an essential update to
> virtuoso coming out far too close to the 4.4 release date for comfort, yet
> needing to be included.  Most of us that suffered worst were the ones that
> had been running virtuoso already.  The developers thought that hardly any
> 'ordinary users' would fall into that category, and were surprised by the
> result.  The 4.4.1 update should be out soon, and I'd be inclined to not
> push 4.4.0 to users that are less than comfortable with fixing things. 
> Just my opinion,of course.
> 
> > How can we be - a little more - sure this won't happen in the
> > future? Any thoughts on this? (I tried kde 4.4.0 on rawhide and not on my
> > production system for obvious reasons :-))
> 
> I've already been talking to various people about this.  As often happens,
> a failure of communication was a part of the problem.  Work is being done
> on how best to spread the information when something can cause a major
> issue, as was in this case.  One suggestion is a plasmoid to be placed on
> the desktop at update time, with a link to any essential release details. 
> Hopefully we will be able to do better in the future in respect to
> communication.
> 
> Anne

Hi Anne,

Thanks for your info. We'll see what the future will bring :-) After a second 
reboot everything seems fine now. It looks like the 'conversion' from KDE 4.3.5 
to the current version had some sort of hiccup.

Martin Kho