KDE 4 [Poll What Desktop Environment Do You Use?]

[jbo5112]

Has anyone had any experience with KDE 4? I'm starting to look at upgrading, but Gentoo having it hard masked kinda scares me off to wait until it's more mature.

[yoshi314]

if you expect it to 'just work' - wait at least for 4.1.

if you can deal with misfunctionality, bugs and crashes - go for 4.0.

[Michael]

if you expect it to 'just work' - wait at least for 4.1.

if you can deal with misfunctionality, bugs and crashes - go for 4.0.

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GNOME 2.20 and 2.21 boxes here.

[jbo5112]

I was running e17 for years, so I'm used to having some bugs around. Also, running Gentoo, I'm used to having to tinker with things to get them to work. I heard there were some advantages, some bugs and some missing features in 4.0. I do find that a surprising amount the eye candy available is actually useful (pretty much everything but animations that aren't user feedback), but I'm wondering if it's missing any features I use or if there are enough bugs to make it unusable.

Is there anyone with KDE 4 experience that can comment on its current functionality? I'm downloading the OpenSUSE live CD to try in a VM, but I'm sure that will have a lot more hardware issues than running it directly.