On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 07:45 +0200, Will Stephenson wrote:
On Monday 16 Apr 2012 22:05:50 Roger Luedecke wrote:
Don't put your users on KDE anymore. I stopped doing that a while ago, and when I did the complaints stopped.
Roger, you are very new in this community and you are stamping on the biggest fault lines in it by generalising matters of taste, on your blog and now here, on the KDE team list. Our members do not go and troll on the GNOME list.
When you rocked up to the project last year bursting with optimism and with a hatful ideas of how to save the world with openSUSE and KDE, I was concerned that you would become disillusioned because it's never possible to fix all the issues and realise great ideas overnight - the project is composed of too many disparate interests and directions.
The "great inspiration for X; disillusionment; go away for a bit, come back with great inspiration for Y, decrying the false hope of X" archetype is well known and X and Y are always pretty much interchangeable. If you are enthusiastic about GNOME now, good for you - go and do something positive with it without having to attack the work and the interests of your fellow community members.
Please have the common sense not to continue this thread (if at all) with a bunch of seemingly objective problems with KDE to justify your behaviour - all it is doing is laying out fuel for another silly flamewar.
Will
-- My intent here was not to flame. Indeed, when I started putting my clients on Gnome I was still using KDE. In general, as a matter of taste (configurability, advanced options, etc.) I prefer the KDE way. However, for my users who simply want their computers to work consistently (most of the time, they do thankfully understand that isn't always going to happen since nothing with a processor will work perfectly) I give them Gnome (not to mention it tends to have simpler applications which are less intimidating) since it is generally more stable, perhaps since its a bit less complex and probably because it is the one supported by big commercial players and thus gets more love.
As for my blog, I stated my opinions and experience. 12.1 with KDE was a festival of bugs. I do seem to have a strange karma of running into bugs that other people won't for some reason. In 12.2 I look forward to the many KDE fixes I have heard about, and hope to go back to using it. In the meantime, I have work to do with my machines and don't have the inclination to fight incessantly with my DE. I hope this clarifies my position. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org