[Discuss] Desktop Managers

[mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca]

On Sun, 3 Aug 2014, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> It sounds like OpenSuse is rightly being quite conservative about the
> transition to KDE5.

KDE policy seems to be that each new major version of KDE is actually a
completely separate product from the previous major version, not really a
"version" at all.  KDE4 was claimed to be something new, not a version of
the same thing as KDE3, and KDE5 would be something new, not a version of
the same thing as KDE4.  That is why bug number 158556, which I think is a
regression (it worked before, it doesn't work anymore) is to this day
classified instead as a "wishlist item."

   https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158556

I'd say KDE5 is worth looking at if and only if it has abandoned the
"Semantic Desktop" concept of KDE4, but I doubt we'll be so lucky.

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Matthew Skala
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