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Hmm. In previous threads I've expressed my satisfaction with recent KDE releases - the whole series from 4.0* to 4.9 was a continuous improvement to me (with my use-cases on my systems - it seems some people had less luck), and especially 4.6 - 4.9 were incredibly polished/stable/feature-complete.
I can't say I'm anywhere near as impressed with 4.10; there've been seemingly idiotic regressions in some areas, especially the QML-rewritten plasmoids...why bother releasing your remade versions if they have (literally) less than half the features in some cases, and break almost every use-case I could actually thing of? The new screenlocking feature doesn't actually lock the screen properly, the power-management doesn't work, plasma-desktop crashes occasionally (never in 4.8/9).
At least Nepomuk is better, some of the applications have considerable improvements and they fixed the ugly background to the various settings/help windows.
It's still my DE of choice, and hopefully 4.10.x will tidy up bugs and a few feature-regressions, but it does seem to be a backward step overall. Which is a shame.
*Yes, yes, I know *anything* could be an improvement on 4.0...
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Originally posted by FLHerne View PostHmm. In previous threads I've expressed my satisfaction with recent KDE releases - the whole series from 4.0* to 4.9 was a continuous improvement to me (with my use-cases on my systems - it seems some people had less luck), and especially 4.6 - 4.9 were incredibly polished/stable/feature-complete.
I can't say I'm anywhere near as impressed with 4.10; there've been seemingly idiotic regressions in some areas, especially the QML-rewritten plasmoids...why bother releasing your remade versions if they have (literally) less than half the features in some cases, and break almost every use-case I could actually thing of? The new screenlocking feature doesn't actually lock the screen properly, the power-management doesn't work, plasma-desktop crashes occasionally (never in 4.8/9).
At least Nepomuk is better, some of the applications have considerable improvements and they fixed the ugly background to the various settings/help windows.
It's still my DE of choice, and hopefully 4.10.x will tidy up bugs and a few feature-regressions, but it does seem to be a backward step overall. Which is a shame.
*Yes, yes, I know *anything* could be an improvement on 4.0...All opinions are my own not those of my employer if you know who they are.
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Originally posted by FLHerne View Postthere've been seemingly idiotic regressions in some areas, especially the QML-rewritten plasmoids...why bother releasing your remade versions if they have (literally) less than half the features in some cases, and break almost every use-case I could actually thing of? The new screenlocking feature doesn't actually lock the screen properly, the power-management doesn't work, plasma-desktop crashes occasionally (never in 4.8/9).
KDE is failing anyway. 4.10 had virtual no impact on the userbase at Arch. Like 1%. And Linus is back on the most extendable DE. Sorry KDE Now go die.
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Originally posted by funkSTAR View PostThe idiotic forced use of QML is caused by Qts directions. Qt was meant to be Nokias way ahead. This impacts Qt5 and thus KDEs future. Even now. The Qt people are pushing QML, because they have no other choice. KDE have to obey Qt. So yeah expect more shit like this.
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Originally posted by TheBlackCat View PostA blatant lie and you know it. Qt has absolutely no control whatsoever over KDE. KDE devs are using QML because it provides them advantages.
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Originally posted by TheBlackCat View PostA blatant lie and you know it. Qt has absolutely no control whatsoever over KDE. KDE devs are using QML because it provides them advantages.Last edited by JS987; 01 March 2013, 02:01 PM.
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Originally posted by Ericg View PostDistro you're using, FLHerne? Because I think I've only had one crash for 4.10 and what QML plasmoids are you having problems with?? Screenlocker is working just fine over here on Arch x86_64, power management is working fine except on systemd systems and thats due to a bug that is getting fixed in 4.10.1 (patch already committed to master & 4.10 branch)
I was previously a Debian user, got fed up of the constant outdatedness (even in Testing).
Power management is very broken - buttons don't do anything, DBus messages don't do anything, pretty much nothing does except shutdown -h -P now. . Screenlocker is quite shiny, but has the alarming characteristic of displaying the desktop/windows (no interaction, it hangs momentarily) for a bit before it slaps the locker on and asks for a password after resuming from suspend*.
Plasmoid-wise, the device notifier doesn't reliably notify me about new devices, when it does the device action buttons often don't actually do anything. Notifications have a tendency to pop up where the bottom corner on my screen would be if it was 1024x768, the weather widget crashed plasma-desktop twice** while trying to get me a forecast, and the comic strip*** has had so many features stripped out (resizing to currently-displayed strip, show icons instead of words in the tab-bar...) that it's all but unusable in any role. It's useful if you want to look at exactly one comic, in which every strip is always an identical size - so not even Calvin&Hobbes, let alone the dozen-or-so wildly varying ones I had.
*Yes, suspend works very occasionally, perhaps PM isn't _completely_ broken...
**plasma-desktop has crashed itself a dozen times in a week, too. Given that 4.7 was quite good, 4.8 crashed once and I had no crashes at alll with 4.9, that's quite a big step back.
***It's not actually _important_, if important means productive, but I don't see the point in replacing something non-broken with something that simply isn't close to equivalent. Quite ridiculous.
It certainly won't put me off KDE as a one-off (I put up with 4.0, after all ) - but it's certainly reduced my confidence that the devs are paying enough attention to QA; there are just so many things broken for me in this release.
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