Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1581 mails)

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 17:42 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > I thought someone wrote some months ago, that the path of gnome was more
> > > evolution, instead of the "revolution"-ary path of KDE.
> > Ah, more meaningless broad and vague generalizations.
> What is meaningless and broad there? Gnome creates 3.0 by taking 2.8
> and adding features. KDE creates 4.0 by tossing 3.5.10 out the window
> and rewriting everything.

As has been stated multiple times - here - by KDE developers - they did
*NOT*  "rewriting everything".  

They re-factored some code, rewrote some code, and sent some code out
the sheds.

The GNOME project has done much the same thing.  For example: Glade [a
commonly used GNOME component] is deprecated and should not be used in
GNOME 3.x applications.  There is a new GNOME UI framework for
describing interfaces in XML.

This is all just the normal life-cycle of large code bases.

Describing any of the above cases as "evolutionary" or "revolutionary"
is indeed vague and meaningless.  If you want to talk about development
practices then use specifically development practice terminology.   Or
don't; because end users don't, and shouldn't, give a crap about
development processes.

>  Then they release 4.0 as a developers-only
> release, and even 4.1 was for "early adopters". KDE 4.4 is still
> missing some of the most basic features, such as photo metadata in the
> file browser. I have filed or triaged well over 1200 bugs at KDE for
> tens of users, before you go attacking my stance by attacking my
> interests or intentions.

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