On 04/14/2017 10:36 AM, Martin Herkt wrote:
As someone who isn’t involved with KDE development or openSUSE KDE packaging, KDE seems extremely unpolished to me. There’s just so much old and half-baked crap that the entire project is suffering from. Someone really needs to take out the trash, even if it means sacrificing functionality.
To me, it seems like the KDE project lacks direction. It’s like everybody’s just hacking on their own toy projects until they get bored with it, and nobody wants to be responsible for anything. There have been fundraising campains in the past, but it’s never been about fixing the architectural mess (some say it has “grown organically,”and to me it looks more like terminal cancer). This needs to be dealt with, or it’s going to be hard to take this project seriously enough to make it a default choice for anything.
[...] Dolphin, KMail, KWrite etc. are still great applications that I don’t want to miss.
IMO it's a pity that so many nice applications are bundled with KDE. When I was more into it (many years ago) I've had the impression that KDE wants to sponge up any existing Qt based apps. For example kcachegrind. There is no reason to build it for KDE. It builds fine against QT only as well. Unfortunately openSUSE does not ship qcachegrind. I guess if more of the existing smaller KDE applications would have been developed independent of the central KDE repo then either KDE base would have been evolved in a more stable/usable way or many of these smaller projects would have switched to Qt only. Both possibilities would be better than what we have now. cu, Rudi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org