From: dmcbride@naboo.to.org.no.spam.for.me   
      
   AZ Nomad wrote:   
      
   > Are the gentoo kde 4.x ebuilds ready for prime time yet?   
      
   That's a matter of perspective.  I've been using KDE 4 since the 4.0 betas   
   on this machine, and am finding that 4.2.1 is pretty decent.  Still awaiting   
   k3b's port to KDE4, but the new kmail is, IMO, much nicer, as is ktorrent,   
   and even konqueror.  Not a big fan of gwenview over kuickshow, myself, but   
   that might just be me.   
      
   I don't currently use koffice, though will give it another shot when the KDE4   
   version comes out.  OpenOffice.org works fine enough ;-)   
      
   Compositing is nice - though using the open-source ATI drivers has prevented   
   me from actually getting them to work (the catalyst drivers from ATI worked   
   fine for this, but would hang the machine when I logged out - which is bad   
   when I'm constantly upgrading KDE, especially when I was using the snapshot   
   builds for 4.2).   
      
   So, for the most part, the answer would be "yes."  Just enable the kdeprefix   
   USE flag, and try it.  You'll still have 3.5 installed and can always go back   
   -)   
      
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