On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 16:40 +0200, C wrote:
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 16:04, Duaine Hechler wrote:
Why did the "traditional" desktop turn into a "foldered" desktop ?
(Yes, I know, technically it is a folder - BUT)
I thought a desktop is a desktop !
The concept of the desktop has moved on, changed.. whatever you want to call it... and it's become a place you can do more than just drop files (the traditional desktop). Now you can run widgets on it and do other things as well....
If you don't like it, change it.. you can setup/use the traditional desktop if you want.
To dig up the old complaint: I do not think anyone is so upset that the desktop has moved on. The issue is how the old behavior is so gone, with no clear method about how to accomplish those same tasks in the new setup. It is not necessarily the nature of the new environment that makes these old things difficult to do. Quite often they are simply gone. No trace. But of course Linux seldom equals backward compatibility. Which is usually offered as a weakness. Imagine a company with 1000+ employees running KDE3 and then finding that to update to the next release all need significant re-training. That is one of the reasons Vista was so poorly adopted - the cost of retraining people to use it. I think KDE4-type changes is taking MS compatibility one step too far :)
Right click on the desktop Desktop Activity Settings Activity and set Type to Plain Desktop
A few cosmetic things change. But many useful KDE3 features will not come back (we each have our own list of these things that have been discussed here ad infinitum). KDE4 is, IMHO, change for the sake of change. Of course, being a programmer, I fully recognize the driving force. Those who are programming KDE4 are doing it because they think it is fun. And I surely would not volunteer my time to program something that was no longer fun for me. The driving force in open source is the programmers, not the users. Love it or hate it, that is the nature of the method. It is not that the programmers ignore the users. But it is ultimately the programmers who will make the decisions. Which is only fair, as they will be the ones doing the work - for free. So, we have all understood KDE4 is not KDE3. It was just the shock of how many things were simply gone. I think people are generally getting on with KDE4, now that the initial shock has settled. I just fear a repeat with KDE5. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org