-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Clayton wrote:
Run this past me very slowly, KDE 4 the new flagship desktop was shipped *without* the capability to change the desktop background to an image of your choice! Somehow I missed this in the firefight on functionality which explodes periodically on this list...
As has been said many many many times, KDE4.0.4, and KDE4.1 are KDE Desktops in development. KDE4.1 is NOT the final be-all-end-all of KDE4. The KDE4 desktop is a from-scratch re-write to take advantage of QT4 and to clean up the spaghetti code and useless kruft from years of development on the previous code tree. This means that yes bits are still missing... including the soon to be added back in ability to have different wallpapers on each desktop (plus more). The developers are bringing the missing bits back as quickly as they can with the rewritten code and the replacement features showing up almost daily.
C.
This is all well and good, but to my knowledge throwing out the baby with bathwater (or for a more pertinent metaphor leaving the baby in the open unattended while rebuilding the house) is not a good idea. The repetition of the 'in development' mantra is beginning to wear a little thin. The roll out of KDE4 has been a PR and HRM disaster area, with developers feeling under appreciated and abused, experienced users feeling their comments are ignored or discarded at whim, and others just generally confused. Hopefully, other OSS developers will take note of this and take this as example of how *not* to manage a major change to a well used, well loved and well understood tool. - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklklBMACgkQasN0sSnLmgLxBwCgsoYT7cGpbv+7wYAP3k0XPkgG vD4AoLqZFcgHKLXs4V0blgxjlRUn8950 =hcPc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org