Stan Goodman said the following on 05/22/2010 05:25 PM:
At 21:36:58 on Saturday Saturday 22 May 2010, Regis Matejcik
wrote: [...] I hope it will be a great improvement, i.e. usable. That you are enthusiastic even about the present version illustrates "different strokes for different folks". There is no admission of such a philosophy in Anton's defense; it was more "I know what is best for everybosy".
Not so. "Anton's defence" was that as a neophile he is willing to understand that anything new requires debugging. Some have said that KDE4.0 should never have been released. I disagree. If it hadn't then there would have been no feedback and no bug fixes and no development. Can someone illustrate with a FOSS project that has languished for lack of users and hence lack of feedback and fixes? I'm sure you can. The problem with KDE4 was (and still is) the recidivist KDE3 users who moved over too soon. Perhaps if the KDE4 developers had called everything before 4.4 a "pre-" or a "-rc" ... David Rankin keeps suggesting alternate desktops and I keep trying them. I have problems with most of them but I happily try them out and ask David about configuration issues, experiment, download themes and widgets and things, and take a positive approach. All these desktops are different - have different assumptions about the UI. The gap between KDE and Enlightenment is bigger than that between KDE3 and KDE4, but so what? I could still use it effectively even if I couldn't find all the "bits" to dress it up the way I wanted. All good fun. If KDE4 vanished I could change to XFCE, E16, E17 or even FVWM or IceWm. If they all vanished I could even use Gnome. :-) I'm not saying KDE is "best for everybosy" (was that a Freudian slip on your part?) but complaining that it isn't what you want is unfair. No-one is forcing you to use it. -- If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org