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Re:A proposal to switch Fedora Workstation's desktop from GN... by raverbashing on Thursday May 16, 2024 @09:27AM (#40378185)
As much as I'm a KDE fan, saying "developer advice" was to wait for 4.3 is very unhelpful (not to call it something else)

It would have been much better if 4.3 was called 4.0 as it was supposed to be

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Re:A proposal to switch Fedora Workstation's desktop from GN... by bluGill on Thursday May 16, 2024 @10:05AM (#40378648)
That isn't a good option - KDE needed to promise to other developers here is a base you should start working on and it won't get drastic changes.

There is no good answer to this problem.

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Re:A proposal to switch Fedora Workstation's desktop from GN... by raverbashing on Thursday May 16, 2024 @12:16PM (#40380109)
Yes

The Linux kernel does this (or used to do at least) with odd version numbers.

Or you could call it -dev, or -unstable version. Or call it 3.90-dev or something

There are options.

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Re:A proposal to switch Fedora Workstation's desktop from GN... by Rinzler89 on Thursday May 16, 2024 @09:41AM (#40378350)
>As much as I'm a KDE fan, saying "developer advice" was to wait for 4.3 is very unhelpful (not to call it something else)

At least they were honest and upfront about it that it's shit and it's gonna be fixed later. Gnome's response in such a case would have usually been "it's not a bug, you're just holding it wrong"[1].

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3787

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Re:A proposal to switch Fedora Workstation's desktop from GN... by raverbashing on Thursday May 16, 2024 @12:21PM (#40380177)
Ouch, I think "holding it wrong" is an optimistic view, I would describe this as gaslighting really
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