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Criticisms of KDE 3 Release Process

Posted by michael on from the few-raindrops-must-fall dept.

An anonymous submitter sent in a link to a recent email from the kde-devel list, criticizing the release process. Hopefully the KDE guys can work out any problems and keep up the good work that we've seen in the past. Update: 03/10 14:20 GMT by M : One of the comments below points out that another KDE developer has made an extensive response to the original criticisms.

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  1. *sigh* by sewagemaster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    overall, kde is a good 'product' but i'm just too disappointed with the speed issue. i've got 384 MBs of RAM on my Pentium 450 and it's just bearable. sure it's got some nice themes and all, but even windows 98 is running faster. i'm not just talking about apps, but kde hasnt been too responsive. i have yet to try out KDE3 yet (since they arent planning on releasing it on unstable)...

    mind you, i've disabled all the 'effects' to speed things up... not much help.

    recently migrated to XFCE (xfwm) and i'm pretty happy about it. fluxbox is the ultimate but i still havent figured out how to dock applets and other stuff properly..

    i've been totally depending on Konqueror now that it's so hard to use something else. but if you run any kde apps even in fluxbox it's going to slow everything waaay down...

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  2. Re:forget about the release process... by urmensch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    can you count coward?

  3. I see the problem... by A_Non_Moose · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If they use the same 4pt font in the article that they use in their code, no wonder nothing gets fixed!!!

    You can't re-code what you can't read.

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