Binary incompatibility of Linux distributions

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

>> fwiw, I see these artifacts ALL the time - and kate is almost useless -
>> but it was still worth migrating from Intrepid.
> 
> Please file issue, Derek. Include screenshots.

It's there (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338669). I get updates about it 
practically daily - the _problem_ is well understood, but the solution seems 
elusive.  Some people clearly find it much worse than I do - it's an 
annoyance to me, except in kate, while others say it makes KDE unusable.
> 
>>It was even still worth
>> migrating from Hardy, which was far better than Intrepid.
> 
> Agreed, even with Hardy being rock stable and KDE 4.2 having quite a
> few bugs, the new features (Okular, for instance) made Jaunty worth
> the upgrade.

Yes, Okular is very nice.
-- 
derek