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[Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 21 June 2008 07:09:51 Raskolnikov Tkachuk wrote:
> Rajko M. wrote:
> > On Friday 20 June 2008 10:38:21 pm John Andersen wrote:
> > > What's the point?  The KDE team know all the things that are missing.
> >
> > Something will be added first, vote for that with bug report.
>
> How about: Don't release incomplete software without
> explicitly labeling it as ALPHA.

Hi Aaron,

It's not incomplete and it's not alpha. It just doesn't have everything KDE3 
had. Those are two different concepts

> If I write a "scientific calculator" and I only
> implement addition and subtraction and it doesn't
> crash... it would be downright dishonest to release
> it as version 1.0, on the grounds that multiply
> and divide will be introduced in version 1.1,
> and logrithms, exponentials, powers, and roots
> will be dribbed out over versions 1.2.x, etc..
> and not actually having what anyone REASONABLY
> expects of a scientific calculator in version 1.5.

That's just silly. KDE4 has more functionality than most window managers. It 
just doesn't have everything KDE3 had, but if you need all that, just use 
KDE3. It's still there and still supported

Anders
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