Slackware officially adds KDE 3.5.10 to version 13?
 

All,

I've just been reading the latest Distro Watch Weekly and came across this:

I can't read the link in the quote because blogs are blocked at my place of employment, but I haven't seen anything about this on Slackware.com or this forum.

What's the story?

Regards,

Packages are located on mirrors in unsupported directory.

http://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/slackw...for-slack13.0/

More about topic in README file.

Ah ha!

Thanks Kukibl. I was looking for it under the /slackware64-13.0/extra/ directory of my favorite mirror. I didn't think to look under /unsupported. The fact that it's unsupported would also explain why there's no announcement on the the slackware.com website. Still, an announcement of some sort would have been helpful. Possibly in the changelog?

Thanks again,

Basically, there isn't one. Just some blogger going "KDE4 isn't as configurable as 3.5.... waaaaaah waaaaaah waaaaaah!"

I've got two computers I need to update to Slackware 13 -- an older Pentium III laptop and a brand new Athalon 64 desktop. I'll probably update the laptop first because I'm the only one who uses it. I'll likely keep KDE 4 on it and learn my way around. Depending on how well that works, I can upgrade the Desktop with KDE 4 or (now, thanks to Pat et. al.) downgrade it to KDE 3.5 if my wife has trouble with KDE 4.

It's nice to have the options, so we'll see how it works out.

Regards,

Hmm. I observe through the forum here that many people are unhappy with KDE 4.2.4. I observe that many wish 3.5.10 had been maintained concurrently for at least one Slackware release. Clear to me is that KDE 4.2.4 works well for some people and does not for others. My conclusion is that this one issue has splintered the Slackware community. To what degree I am unprepared to say. Yet I would say there is indeed a story here.

This issue is not about what is "right" or "wrong," but about choice. Most end-users are not skilled or qualifed to maintain something as complicated as the KDE software code. To be abandoned is bound to motivate a wide range fo emotions.

To mock the blog writer with a statement such as "waaaaaah waaaaaah waaaaaah!" is inappropriate.

Which is exactly why I started the following thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...stion.-757500/

It would have saved me a lot of grief.

Need to or want to? theres a huge difference?

I don't understand what you're saying.

Agreed. Usually the changelog has the best info, but a sticky thread for important announcements is a good idea.

Regards,

Just another one in denial: "Everything is fine. All those dissatisfied people are just whiners. Everything is fine. Everything is fine."

I saw this release as a gentle 'gift' to us. I have a feeling that (the not so old) 4.2.4 seems like a smart choice as there are more changes than those 10.000 improvements being made... KDE will mature and some time 4.3 will hit current. With all background indexing turned off, KDE 4.2.4 is being fast with little memory/processor consume.

XFCE was nicely packed, have a cool composite, is damn fast and resource friendly. If you like taskbar & startmenu, XFCE can be very functional and customized a lot. Go to rlworkman's repository and grab a few goodies to add new functionalities.

We have kde3 compat libs and now the whole 3.5.10. Why put more pressure? Just relax and let the 'crew' have some rest.

Only 10000 improvements? So few?? Hardly worth bothering with. :rolleyes:

You are labeled whiners because despite being repeatedly linked to pre-built KDE 3.5 packages and their SlackBuilds, you are still throwing your toys out of the pram.

We get it, you won't touch KDE 4 with a barge pole. Just install KDE 3.5 already!

I guess I just reacted badly to a blog post that presented no significant points of argument or evidence and merely resorted to the generalised bemoaning of a supposed "lack of options/configurability/features" in KDE4.

The author may very well have had valid arguments against KDE4. Unfortunately, he didn't bother to present any of them to his readers. "Waaaaaah Waaaaaaah" may have been a bit childish, but it captures the tone of that blogpost quite well.