Which desktop to use is a personal choice. My choice is KDE. And I
have great respect for the KDE Community having seen it from a
Community member (not a programmer) for several years. I was going to
leave this thread alone until there appeared what to me are
unwarranted and misinformed insults.
On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 1:36 AM, Martin Herkt
As someone who isn’t involved with KDE development or openSUSE KDE packaging, KDE seems extremely unpolished to me.
Not so for me. Extremely polished. [personal choice] There’s just so much old and half-baked
crap that the entire project is suffering from.
exaggerated opinion. Whatever this is about does not show up at all in my experience of KDE. 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.
"toy projects" is an unwarranted, ignorant insult. Further, everybody in KDE? Really? This assertion is just clueless. "Nobody wants to be responsible ..." is complete nonsense. 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.
The entire Plasma project was about building a fundamental, extensible KDE architecture. And so has it fulfilled this expectation. "terminal cancer" gratuitous, hyperbolic insult
That said, I still run a KDE session, albeit with i3 as its window manager (and sway once Wayland on desktop actually works). Dolphin, KMail, KWrite etc. are still great applications that I don’t want to miss. I still want to recommend KDE, but it’s getting harder and harder for me to do so.
After reading the rest of this message, I have a hard time believing that the writer still wants to recommend KDE. The idea that it's harder and harder to recommend is not a function of the obvious KDE improvements. More likely it's a psychological effect. When the choice of desktop is a radio button during install, it is unnecessary and damaging to argue using unsupportable assertions and insults. Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org