Re: Goodbye

On 10/31/2009 10:07 AM, Cliff Nieuwenhuis wrote:
> Replying to message from Mark Ziegler<[email protected]>:
>
>> after many years of using Quanta I say good bye to Quanta and KDE.
>
> I'm in the same position.  I loved KDE3 and used it for real work.
> KDE4 broke everything I used regularly -- Quanta on the top of the
> list.  I'm very upset by that; more upset than I thought I'd ever get
> about a desktop.
>
> I've found Xfce4 (Zenwalk) works for me as a replacement for KDE, but I
> can't get Quanta / Kwebdev to work.  I'm not going to try anymore.  If
> Quanta is tied so tight with KDE4 then I'll find something else, but so
> far nothing matches Quanta.
>
> I'm a web developer, not a programmer, so I don't understand why a
> version of Quanta can't be built for Xfce, but I can't do it and I
> can't help, so all I can do is hope and wait.
>
I really don't get the problem here.  Unless I am missing something.  I've installed Fedora 9, 10 and 11 numerous times on many different machines (mostly x84_64).  Fedora 9 was sort of a mess for the first couple of months, until KDE 4 stabilized around 4.1.

However, in ALL cases Quanta has been, and still is, working as great as it has for years.  I couldn't work without it.  That and Eclipse.  All it required me to do was select the kdewebdev package when installing.  All of the required KDE 3 libs and any other dependencies were installed automatically, every time.

I happen to love KDE 4 (especially since 4.3 delivered) and I cannot get what could be missing that would make it unusable.  And it just keeps getting better.

I am looking forward to trying a new Quanta that will take full advantage to KDE 4, but in the mean time it is serving us very well.

Regards,
  Emmett