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[Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 21 June 2008, Anders Johansson wrote:
> It's not incomplete and it's not alpha. It just doesn't have everything
> KDE3 had. Those are two different concepts

This is developper language. I understand that what's "under the hood" is the 
most important - to the developpers. But since *most* people tend to think 
that if the number is higher, the software must be "better", they expect to 
get a KDE 4 working like KDE 3 at user level. And it does not.

The "first impression" one gets from a desktop environment is... the desktop. 
So, if the Desktop sucks, and you just tell the people this will be cured 
later, to them it's "incomplete" and "not finished" and "beta".

I reacted the same when I first tried 4.0, expecting the .0 to mean GA. And I 
agree it was both a mistake to name it 4.0 and to include it in 11.0 without 
strong warnings, beacuse the word will spread that KDE 4.0 is "not finished" 
and I bet you'll still see comments in months that say that "KDE" is not 
usable. It will be wrong understanding, but that's what will remain in the 
memories, and it's a bad publicity.

I remember people advising me not to buy Fuji films because *they gave 
greenish pictures" several years after Fuji corrected the problem of theiur 
first slide films.....

Thierry



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