[NTLUG:Discuss] SuSE post 11.0 BAD NEWS - Need a new distro

[Leroy Tennison]

Greg Edwards wrote:
> Leroy Tennison wrote:
>> agoats at compuserve.com wrote:
>
>>> changes too much, they are easily lost. The KDE 4.0 format is not 
>>> easy to work with, the themes are not as intuitive, background image 
>>> management is changed, desktop icon line up is god know's where and 
>>> what's with this idiotic tool box menu that keeps appearing every 
>>> time you pass your mouse over the desktop icons?, the default menu 
>>> seemed 
>
>>>
>>> Alvin
>>>
>>> Robert Citek wrote:
>
>>>>> to Kubuntu as I don't care much for the KDE 4.0 eye candy, lack of
>>>>> immediately usable icon alignment on the desktop, dropping xmms and
>>>>> kaudiocreator, etc.
>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> - Robert
>>>>
>
>
>> Is anybody over in KDE land listening (or care)?  I thought maybe I 
>> was a dinosaur for not liking the new in-your-face, I see I'm not 
>> alone.  I sure hope OpenOffice doesn't get Microsoft religion and 
>> decide to wholesale overhaul their UI ala Office 2007.
>>
>
>
> Mandriva 2010.0 uses KDE 4.3.  4.3 fixed allot of the complaints and 
> restored some features lost from 3.2.  For the most part I'm happy 
> with 4.3, I really cringed whenever I used 4.0.
>
> -- 
> Greg E
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That's good to know, I suspect that I will be on CentOS 5.4 long enough 
for 4.4 or 4.5 to be out.  The longer I'm on Linux the more it seems 
that I have to be nimble with distributions.  If CentOS is broke then 
SuSE is doing OK and vice versa.  If KDE is broke someone has a working 
version.