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[Istvan Gabor <suseuser04@xxxxxxx>]

2011. május 14. 9:48 napon Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister@xxxxxxx> írta:

> Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2011, 16:11:27 schrieb John Andersen:
> > > > all the recent desktop development is supposed to be an
> > > > "improvement", yet not even be able to find the darn dialog to change
> > > > the theme anymore. I take it gnome 3 is "not yet ready for use?"
> > >
> > > Yes, it's Firday.  Let's not start the "kde not ready for use"
> > > extravaganza again.  Please.
> >
> > I looked in vain for any mention of KDE, but it seems to me Patrick's
> > is the first.  So what is he prattling on about?
>
> If I'm correct he just means the type of conversation and it does not matter 
> whether you put a KDE/Gnome or whatever new application into that "xy not 
> ready for use" or "does xy really such that bad?" bit. It's always the same 
> people that bring this kind of topic to the mailinglist and it's always the 
> same people that take part in that conversation with the same attitude 
> towards 
> new things and development they don't regard as sensible.
>
> > It should be CLEAR that David is asking a legitimate question here.
>
> IS IT? (rethoric question) It would have been legitimate if he did not 
> (again) 
> mix negative opinion with a legitimate question. Something like "Gnome 3, 
> some 
> question" would have been sensible, asking how to change themes etc. not 
> "does 
> it really suck that bad". Just think about how you would react if somebody 
> came to you and started a conversation about a/your project with the question 
> whether your project really sucks that bad. You would certainly assume that 
> he 
> is just interested in some sensible criticism and only intends to ask 
> sensible 
> questions…
>
> IMHO emails with that kind of beginning/subject belong on a personal blog and 
> not on a mailinglist whose purpose is to answer questions and not to start 
> flamewars, blame projects etc. instead of asking wheter xy sucks. That's not 
> a 
> sensible question. I guess that's clear, isn't it!
>
> Sven


Fortunately we still have KDE 3 which is far better than any of gnomes or other 
KDEs.



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