Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3622 mails)

[Pete Connolly <pete.connolly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Andersen wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:52 AM, Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Several statements collected together here:
>
>   
> > Well, which core functionality are you missing then? I'm using KDE4 and I
> > haven't found anything crucial missing.
> >     
>
>   
> > But that can hardly be called a core desktop functionality. If you really need
> > it, KDE3 konsole is still around and can be used from the KDE4 desktop
> >     
>
>   
> >   KDE4 is not just a rewrite, it's also a cleanup,
> > and features that go unrequested may be ignored
> >
> >     
>
> A cleanup, starting from ground zero?  Who gets to define what
> "core desktop" features are?  Why would thing used heavily and every
> day be stripped out, and replaced with unproven things? (or nothing).
>
> Why not just recompile everything making the minimal amount
> of changes to get it to run in the new infrastructure?  Why Gnome-ify
> KDE?
>
> Why toss out so much and wait for bitching to decide if you will add
> it back in?  (And then act so defensive when bitching arrives?)
>
> Why hide Kong Filemanager mode so deep? What possible reason
> would there be to rewrite Konsole?
>
>   
Why is this discussion not on a KDE development list?  The original 
complaint was that the wording on the installation regarding desktop 
choice was poor.  It's now turned into a full KDE4 hate thread, yet 
opensuse 11.0 actually delivers a very complete, usable KDE4 (for some 
people's definition of complete and usable).  Maybe this discussion 
needs to be moved somewhere relevant, since I don't see anything 
constructive coming out of the current discussions.

Cheers

Pete
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