Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (673 mails)

[Richard <ricreig@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun September 7 2008 12:10:54 am Patrick Shanahan wrote:

> > or not that I've read anyway. Did I miss something? When asked what
> > features we want, the answer normally is ALL of what we have in 3.5. 
>
> KDE4 is a *new* product.  What you are asking is for the developers to
> sit down and compare the two and duplicate everything.  But everything
> is different and *some* things you do not want, are not usable in the
> new product, etc.
Patrick, for the first time I actually understand and agree with you entirely.  
KDE 4.x *IS* a new product,  and it is NOT KDE.  When Mozilla radically changed 
its' browser, they didn't call it Netscape 99 or even Mozilla vN.x, they called 
it Firefox.  When KDE developers completely create a new product, that's great 
and is progress and even desireable, but it certainly is NOT Version 4.x of KDE 
3.5.x which was pretty much a culmination of a progression of related 
improvements to a basic, functional and still very useful product.
 
This 'new' product is simply mis-named.  It is not KDE v4.x, it is v0.x of a 
'new' product and should have been advertised as such and when v1.0 of this as 
yet unnamed 'new' product is released, people may accept it as willingly as 
many now accept Firefox vs Netscape.   Shoot, Firefox runs on Windoze, maybe 
this 'new' desktop can replace Vista on that platform....but I digress. 

In the meantime, in the same spirit as continuing to provide Gnome and other 
desktops, continue to provide KDE, the real one, even if development is no 
longer enthusiastically provided by the KDE developers.   When the 'new' 
product, whatever it is called, (LDE for example eg, Linux Desktop 
Environment)) matures with all its' new vector graphics and infinately scalable 
icons, and hopefully functional replacements for the KDE functions, people will 
demand that KDE stop being distributed and taking up space on the distro media 
in preference to LDE which is so much preferred because it does everything KDE 
could do and it is prettier too.

But stop calling it KDE, it isn't, it is a 'new' product and you said it first 
and I rarely argue with the moderator of a forum :)

Richard

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