Come on! You're reaching. If you don't want to use KDE4, just say you are stubborn and leave it lay at that, but don't ask for "official" ways to do anything with a system that has been dead for 5 years.
No, leave him be. He's essentially saying that he won't upgrade his car because he can't get it in the colour of the old one. Now that may seem silly to you and me, but the point is that its important to him.
And others...
Well, perhaps not colour, but you can find a lot of example in society of people sticking with 'the old way' for various reasons up to and including "well my grandfather was born and died in this house and I'm not moving from it".
Those who live in a hot climate need cool colors (e.g. silver or white), so cars unavailable in those colors will sell poorly if at all. Silver paint doesn't last, so that leaves white for those who need durability too.
People has postyed here about staying with 11.4 for good reasons and ther is a suport group for the people who want to stay with KDE3.
WRT computing, one can become dependent on features that most don't understand or use. KDE3 had features that are broken (file picker) or unavailable (manual panel hiding) in KDE4. X up through 12.1 has functional panning. which is missing in standard repo configurations (upstream regression, not just openSUSE). 11.4 has sysvinit. 12.1 has sysvinit by option. Newer means jumping through hoops at best to keep on keeping on with what isn't/wasn't broke and doesn't/didn't need fixing.
Any new thing, be it a automobile, computer or piece of software, means changes (otherwise why bother?). Some represent the start of a new sequence rather than just a refinement of an old one such as electric cars not being a further refinement of the internal combustion engine).
A car can continue to be used, bugs and all, as long as it's cared for properly and protected against impacts and vandalism. Gasoline and diesel are quickly refilled, and more efficient WRT space and mass than batteries that take time to charge when depleted and require bigger brakes to stop. Puting incorporates a paradigm that doesn't apply to cars. The web is evolving in a fashion that cannot be stopped. Web developers as a group presume latest browser features, so latest browsers are necessary to retain safest access. For Windows users, latest browsers are available for a 12 year old OS version through standard channels. If you use Linux, equivalent availability can expire in as little as 18 months. Things that have been around decades or hundreds or thousands of years probably don't need to be changed. Newer is not equivalent to better. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org