Stan Goodman said the following on 05/22/2010 12:52 PM:
The problems are not only about bugs, but also about foolish (sic!) decisions. To shut down the system or restart now takes twice as many user actions than it did in kde3, without any useful purpose.
Your point being what? You will find over the last few centuries of computation and user inter-face design that it is the "inner loop", the often executed activities, that show reward in being improved and speeded up. The infrequent or "only once" don't warrant the effort. In fact if you can speed up the "inner loop" at the cost of the set-up and teardown that's probably beneficial as well. Some of us virtually never shut down our systems; this isn't Microsoft Windows where you have to reboot for every minor application upgrade. Laptops you say? I thought that was what 'suspend' was for. Having once lost a database because the shutdown did *not* say "are you sure ... are you really sure?", I'm not sorry that the extra confirming actions are now required :-)
Many of the application windows are very non-intuitive for example, and "different", but not better in any sense, except to present an additional learning curve.
So you like KDE3, I gather? Well Ok, then, go get someone who as only ever used Microsoft Windows/95 and stick them in front of a Linux box running KDE3 and listen to them complain, and see how many of the gripes are essentially the same as yours about KDE4. Its about familiarity. People who won't quit making the same mistake over and over are what we call conservatives. - Richard Ford, in his novel Independence Day Lets see ...
In kde3, one could use .png icons in the panel. I have programs that I want in my second panel, for which I made png icons from the very good .ico icons that I had. Now the panel requires a vector graphic, and I know no way to convert anything into such a format. I can understand that the new arrangement makes it easier to program, because of the requirement for variable size, but it makes it less convenient for users.
NOT! It means the old assumptions are not valid. You want backwards compatibility? You want stirrups and reins on your car because that is what horses had? You obviously see the reason - scalability - but you seem to be making to erroneous assumptions: 1. Because you yourself don't know how, there isn't a way 2. You expect to use the same tools as before. No, there are plenty of vector graphics tools. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_vector_graphics_software I like Inkscape and Inkscape can import and display bitmap images,so if you can convert your PNG to BMP ... "The truth is out there" Well, the fact are if you go look. Or ask. But so long as you take a negative view people are going to get exasperated with you. Saying that the KDE4 developers "don't care a fig" for users is not going to endear you to them. -- Originality is the art of remembering the quote but forgetting the source. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org