On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:55:00 Charles Obler wrote:
----- Original Message ---- From: Larry Stotler
To: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Mon, February 22, 2010 9:41:14 AM Subject: Re: [opensuse] 11.2 a big step backwards? [...] The KDE team may realize how much stuff they removed was actually used at some point.
They didn't *remove* anything. When you start with a completely blank canvas there is nothing to remove, only to add. If anything is missing it is because it hasn't been coded and tested yet! KDE4 <> KDE3. As I understand it there is basically nothing common between the two except the name and the developers.
----- Reply ----- Well, at least the KDE developers are learning how much their efforts PRIOR to KDE 4 were appreciated!
There is something about this that doesn't make sense. I'd like to know exactly who it was who decided that we needed "A Whole New Concept" -- [...]
The point was that it was a whole new project, using a completely new development environment, with very different paradigms. It is a completely new UI built from scratch that just happens to be developed by the same team that developed the previous generation, and unfortunately happens to share the name (unfortunately only because of the expectations of some very vocal users who don't like change and have never paid a cent for the software yet expect to be able to demand what a volunteer developer actually produces whilst working on a project in his/her spare time to indulge his/her own passion). OK, I've vented my frustration and I feel better now :-). Time to move on. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org