That thread - Any hope of KDE 3.5 in F10?

[pds]

On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 22:09:57 -0500
"Arthur Pemberton" <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 10:01 PM, pds <pds100 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:52:22 -0400
> > max <maximilianbianco at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Rex Dieter wrote:
> >> > mike cloaked wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Most of the complainers do not directly fix things - so we all
> >> >> perhaps need a little patience and do our bit to help rather
> >> >> than simply grumble.
> >> >
> >> > Be careful, I'd really like to avoid giving an impression that
> >> > any stuff like this is unwanted or falls on deaf ears.
> >> >
> >> > Just keep in mind that constructive feedback, even in the form of
> >> > complaining, is invaluable.  The "constructive" part being very
> >> > important.
> >> >
> >> > -- Rex
> >> >
> >> >
> >> Its hard to listen to a bunch of complaining when there isn't
> >> anything constructive included. I want KDE 3.5 back is not what i
> >> would consider constructive.
> >>
> >
> > When features are in KDE3.5 work better than the newer version,
> > I'll ask for the older version back anytime.  You want specific
> > examples:
> >
> > 1) The background on the virtual screen do not spread across all
> > physical screens. (Yes a bug was submitted.)
> >
> > 2) Not able to hide the panel, at least I haven't found a method.
> >
> > There is more, but this is enough to make another choice.  KDE
> > 4.0 is not an improvement, when functionality is lost from the
> > previous revision and its not documented. (If I did miss it, please
> > provide a pointer to it.)
> 
> > I also think a complete previous revision should be supplied until
> > the next revision is functionally equivalent.  This will give USER
> > the choice of which version to use without being forced to use a
> > choice that he doesn't prefer.  Since the choice of KDE 3.5 is not
> > completely available, I'm being forced into is switching to gnome
> > and using kpager from the kde trunk sources.
> 
> Okay, the magic Fedora KDE slave elves will get on that for you right
> away master.
> 

I'll only bow down to your level enough to say that I hope at some
point in the future that someone forces you down the same road....