On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Patrick Shanahan
I cannot see that you have had any problem expressing your feelings.
Guess I'm just stubborn.
And now it comes with "Personal Settings" :^).
Does this pop up during first login? On which version of KDE4?
I started with 5.x some time ago and continue to support it. But I do not think you should cast aspersions on the programmers who mostly donate their efforts. <quote> That seems to be some programmer's mentality anymore. </quote> Just a recent uttering, many more are available. It is one thing to express an opinion and another to address derogatory inferences toward individuals and/or to continually put them down.
These same programmers target a community of people who they want to see use their software. Further, as an example, until recently Trolltech charged for commercial implementation of Qt, so they weren't completely uncompensated(or some of them anyway) from my understanding.
You take expection to the way some things are being handled, are others not allowed to have some agreement with the direction and to disagree with you?
The real issue is that the KDE team felt they needed to do a complete rewrite(supposedly - it's been pointed out that some KDE3 bugs are in KDE4) and decided that the new way was it without regard for that fact that they had 10+ years of people who have used KDE. Even in an open source project, if you want people to use your code, you have to listen to their input. It's only now with KDE 4.3 that most people are willing to say it's finally the "promised" replacement for KDE3. And, I didn't start with the derogatory references. That started long ago when the lovers of the new way started telling us we were (insert reference here) for not "seeing the light". -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org