Is KDE dead ? Was Re: Stable Release Updates

[Clemens Eisserer]

I am still using KDE, simply because I am used to it.
However, I am not very happy about what happend after KDE-3.5, I guess
I am still using it because I am not interested in learning
GNOME/Xfce/Whatever.

- KDE4 uses quite *a lot* of memory. Instead of 75mb used after start,
I am now at 200mb - which is quite a lot keeping in mind I still own a
laptop with only 512mb ram, and a desktop PC with 384mb for my father
(which already complaind about low performance after upgrading from
3.5->4.3)

- KDE4 is buggy. Until kde-4.3 things improved slow but steadily.
KDE-4.4 seems more buggy than 4.3 again :/

- Too short alpha/beta cycles. KDE alpha releases usually are not
use-/testable because so broken. Beta releases are up only a very
short period of time, so its quite unlikely a bug you report during
beta1/2 will be fixed in the final release, simply because there's not
enough time left, to do the quality houskeeping. Maybe introducing
beta3/4 wouldn't be a bad idea.

Don't get me wrong, I am still very grateful for what KDE devs did,
and that I get such a great thing for free (as speech), but overall
its sad quality has become so bad.

- Clemens

2010/3/13 Mail Lists <lists at sapience.com>:
>
>  I'm curious how many current KDE users we have - what percent of our
> install base? And what percent of the desktop install base ?
>
>  Since the 3.5 -> 4.0 KDE pushathon, everyone I know who was a KDE user
> (myself included, and Linus too!) switched to gnome and none has yet
> gone back.
>
>  At least a part of the fuss about updates seems to be driven by KDE
> wanting to be faster paced than the rest - I'm curious what percent of
> our install base this actually represents today?
>
>  For me there were only 2 things disruptive I presently recall - the
> last was F11 kmail no longer working after recent update - and the
> devastatingly bad 3.5 -> 4.0 premature release.
>
>  I actually like the current general pace - its stable but we get
> decent flow (tho it has slowed somewhat over the 12-18 months or so it
> seems) of upstream updates/bug fixes and largely when appropriate larger
> version bumps. Tho things like firefox lag too much imho - but I no
> longer care as I now use chrome which is way way better.
>
>   Sure there are little hiccups here and there but overall things are
> non-disruptive and decently up to date - and that is the right balance.
>
>  Congrats fedora management, redhat and contributors - and thank you.
>
>
>
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