[Lazarus] Lazarus Release Candidate 3 of 1.8.0

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2017, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 12:49 AM, brian via Lazarus
> <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>> I think "annoying" is a bit of an understatement, myself. If the final
>> release of 1.8 still shows the problem *for me*, then I'm certainly
>> going to be staying with 1.6.4.
>
> It is not so serious because there are workarounds.
> The problem happens only in some Linux distro / desktop combinations
> and even there not always. Users were able to configure their systems
> to get rid of the problem.
> For example I have used various distros with XFCE and KDE but never
> seen the problem.
> One option is to dive into LCL-GTK2 code and fix the problem. That
> should be done by somebody who actually experiences it.
>
> [OutOfTopic]
> I can recommend Manjaro Linux + KDE. It always has the latest released
> versions of everything and KDE5 has matured beautifully.

{
   "OutOfTopic" : ["If by mature you mean 'bloated', then yes.",
                   "KDE has become so bloated, it has driven me away.",
                   "To linux mint and cinnamon." ] 
}

;)


Michael.