KDE 4 stability

First of all, I'm Brazilian, so English isn't my first language. Sorry about any mistakes.

I'm new on Linux world, and started in Ubuntu, introduced to me by a friend.
When I first met KDE, it was in the fourth version' first steps, still very buggy.
From 4.1 to nowadays, with 4.2.9, the look and feel improved so much,
and nothing compares to a personalized KDE in beauty.

Besides the appearance, the overall performance has dropped and when I
installed 4.2.9 from the Ubuntu repositories, it was not a good impression
to see how low the performance and stability was. Maybe it's the time to
give a break in the appearance improvement and start working on the
applications stability and reliability.

Plasma crashes aren't a good thing to help you focus when developing, and
the idea that I have from outside the KDE project is that the improvements
aren't being tested the deserved way before releasing.

That's my opinion, anyone that has a better knowledge of the project internals
can feel free to correct me and teach me a little more about it.

Thanks in advance, Reuben.

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Hello Reuben,

if you are dissatisfied with the stability or speed of the current KDE 4 versions, you can do like me, and install both KDE versions: KDE 3.5.10 and KDE 4.2.90.
You start then always a KDE 3 session, it's very fast and very stable. On top of that you can use the KDE4 version of your favorite applications (like kopete, kate, kile, konqueror, etc.).
It's the closest thing you will get _right now_ to a fast, plasma-free KDE4.

best regards,
Alvaro.

2009/6/13 reuben morais <reuben.morais@...>

First of all, I'm Brazilian, so English isn't my first language. Sorry about any mistakes.

I'm new on Linux world, and started in Ubuntu, introduced to me by a friend.
When I first met KDE, it was in the fourth version' first steps, still very buggy.
From 4.1 to nowadays, with 4.2.9, the look and feel improved so much,
and nothing compares to a personalized KDE in beauty.

Besides the appearance, the overall performance has dropped and when I
installed 4.2.9 from the Ubuntu repositories, it was not a good impression
to see how low the performance and stability was. Maybe it's the time to
give a break in the appearance improvement and start working on the
applications stability and reliability.

Plasma crashes aren't a good thing to help you focus when developing, and
the idea that I have from outside the KDE project is that the improvements
aren't being tested the deserved way before releasing.

That's my opinion, anyone that has a better knowledge of the project internals
can feel free to correct me and teach me a little more about it.

Thanks in advance, Reuben.

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On Friday 12 June 2009, reuben morais wrote:
> Besides the appearance, the overall performance has dropped and when I
> installed 4.2.9 from the Ubuntu repositories, it was not a good impression

4.2.90 is "KDE 4.3 beta 2", and it's called a beta for a reason. i hope you've
reported the crashes you have encountered, as we've been fixing them as they
roll in so that 4.3.0 will be nice and stable.

as for performance, there's any number of reasons that could be. you could
start with some testing various components to try and track down where the
problem(s) are.

but if you want a super stable experience, don't run betas. it's really that
simple.

if you'd like to help us make stable releases, run betas and report issues as
they arise.

> give a break in the appearance improvement and start working on the
> applications stability and reliability.

appearance is not all we're working on. not by FAR. it's not even the bulk of
what we're working on.

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[Herli Menezes]

Well, Alvaro, Im brazilian too. Im using KDE, running Fedora FC10, at Ubuntu I cannot say if it works, but although new KDE is nice, there are still some bugs. For example, I can change language from default (us english) to br portuguese. So some words aren't correctly written (something like: avi~ao, n~ao...). so I changed to Gnome.

HJdM

2009/6/12 reuben morais <reuben.morais@...>

First of all, I'm Brazilian, so English isn't my first language. Sorry about any mistakes.

I'm new on Linux world, and started in Ubuntu, introduced to me by a friend.
When I first met KDE, it was in the fourth version' first steps, still very buggy.
From 4.1 to nowadays, with 4.2.9, the look and feel improved so much,
and nothing compares to a personalized KDE in beauty.

Besides the appearance, the overall performance has dropped and when I
installed 4.2.9 from the Ubuntu repositories, it was not a good impression
to see how low the performance and stability was. Maybe it's the time to
give a break in the appearance improvement and start working on the
applications stability and reliability.

Plasma crashes aren't a good thing to help you focus when developing, and
the idea that I have from outside the KDE project is that the improvements
aren't being tested the deserved way before releasing.

That's my opinion, anyone that has a better knowledge of the project internals
can feel free to correct me and teach me a little more about it.

Thanks in advance, Reuben.

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On Monday 15 June 2009, Herli Joaquim de Menezes wrote:
> Well, Alvaro, Im brazilian too. Im using KDE, running Fedora FC10, at
> Ubuntu I cannot say if it works, but although new KDE is nice, there are
> still some bugs. For example, I can change language from default (us
> english) to br portuguese. So some words aren't correctly written
> (something like: avi~ao, n~ao...).

Do you mean the font rendering isn't correct, or that the translation wasn't
correct? Where did this show up in the interface, exactly, and what's the
report # on bugs.kde.org for it?

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