Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2243 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry Stotler wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister@xxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
>   
> > I never stated that you said anything about "forced". Neither did I refer to
> > the OP's comment on KDE4 forcing him to learn new things. You jumped some
> > levels in the thread.
> > I only replied to your comment regarding Linus Torvalds and pointed out that
> > if anyone was forced to use KDE 4.0, he would agree on it not being usable
> > compared to KDE 3.5.
> >     
>
> Ok, now I am thoroughly corn-fused.  Duh......  Anyway, I THINK I see
> your point now.
>
>   
> > I claimed opensuse did not force anyone to use KDE 4.0 and not even 4.1. 
> > David
> > claimed that eight months ago 4.0 was, which is what I do not agree with.
> >     
>
> Yeah, I see that as well, however, there was the conception that 4 was
> being pushed over 3(and it was).  But no-one was forcing anyone to use
> anything.  So long as 11.0/3.5.x works, I will stick with it.
> However, I do get tired of hearing how great KDE4 is and for me it's
> the total opposite.  However, I have yet to install 4.2, so when I
> have some time(maybe next year at this rate) I will re-install 11.1
> and update to 4.2.  I don't demand a lot from my desktop, but the way
> KDE4 works is very alien to what I am used to(and I've used so many
> OS/Desktops like OS/2 and all the others).
>   
The KDE team should have look at the OS/2 WPS for ideas.  It was doing
some incredible things 17 years ago, that I have not seen elsewhere.

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