On Thursday 28 February 2008 06:52:14 Sven Burmeister wrote:
On Donnerstag, 28. Februar 2008, Bob S wrote:
I've visited that KDE4 web page numerous times and read every blog hoping that something has changed. Let me give you a quote from that page. "To make a long story short: KDE 4.0 is not and never was meant to replace 3.5.x for regular users." Sounds pretty ominous to me. Sounds like a "dumbed down" version for Windoze users.
Usually, and you would have read that somewhere if you really did read that many blogs etc., there is a feature freeze, which answers your question: "Is this it? For kde4?? or is a lot of iot going to "catch up" to 3.5. If not, it certainly is not for me." 4.0 never was meant to and never will catch up with 3.5. 4.1 maybe will to a certain extent, 4.2 even more and so on.
Calm down, mailing list gladiator. Maybe Bob doesn't read planetkde.org or all the kde* threads on opensuse@. Not everybody is as immersed in openSUSE and KDE developer culture as we are. Anyway, the point is the "dot oh". KDE 4 in general is for everybody, both KDE 3 users and people who've never heard of Linux yet. KDE 4.0 specifically is to fix the bugs and complete the missing features and is not intended, in its raw form, for regular users. For one, because in the hands of a 'regular user' and not an informed KDE community member, the missing features can be mistaken for a dumbed down design. KDE 4.1 and up should have feature parity AND cool new stuff.
Thanks for your misguided intellectual insight.
Thanks for ranting and showing off your ignorance.
Now you're even. Shake hands and play nice. Will -- Will Stephenson Desktop Engineer KDE Team --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org