Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1815 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Scott Newton <scottn@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tuesday 28 October 2008 18:15:13 Fred A. Miller wrote:
> > QUITE right, Kai!! However, the devs don't want to hear that. It's like 
> > they want to force a simplistic 'Bloze type GUI down everyone's throat. 
>
> Actually it's closer to the Mac than Vista or XP.
>
> > We we don't have the control over the desktop EQUAL to 3.5, then it's NOT a 
> viable desktop, IMHO.
> > Either they get their heads of of the sand and do what's needed to get
> > ALL of  the 3.5 functionality in 4.*, or it's NOT going to be used by most
> > current KDE users.
>
> Well so far there are 6 items on the list
> http://en.opensuse.org/What_features_is_KDE4_missing_when_compared_to_KDE3

A lot of issues that people complained about have been resolved, see the
link at the bottom of the page.  The KDE developers have indeed fixed
many of these.

Looking at the six mentioned items most are so vague that nobody can do
anything with them right now, so please be really specific.

> They are not going to add items they don't get requests for because if no one 
> requests a particular item then it probably isn't being used and they don't 
> have to worry about it. Everyone uses their desktops differently. Some people 
> love icons the desktop, other people hate it. That's why there are now far 
> more options for how you control your desktop than there were in KDE3. The 
> way 
> you do it is different but that's a learning curve you have to go through 
> when 
> you switch to something new  (like XP to Vista).
>
> Office 2007 is very different to Office 2003. For some people think that was 
> a bad 
> move, others love it. Overall though it's called progress and that's not 
> something everyone agrees on. If you don't like KDE4 fine, move to Gnome. It 
> is 
> after all your choice.
>
> Being pragmatic KDE4 is the future of KDE whether you like it or not so 
> either 
> work with it to get the features you want or move to something else. It 
> really 
> is that simple.

Scott, I agree,
Andreas
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