On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 07:33 -0800, jsa wrote:
On Thursday 25 February 2010 05:20:28 am Will Stephenson wrote:
On Saturday 20 February 2010 02:04:36 Felix Miata wrote: (Disclaimer: I've been a KDE developer since the 2.x days and was deeply involved in the KDE 4 process). Felix, you are confusing the KDE desktop shell with what is now known as the KDE Software Compilation - the complete suite of software built with KDE. It is true that parts of the desktop shell - in KDE 3, the panels and desktop background provided by kicker and kdesktop - was completely replaced by the Plasma Desktop. The applications, the window manager, and the libraries that make up the platform were ported from KDE 3, rationalised in some places and extended in others. Don't take everything you read in forums and lists as gospel... That is pretty much at odds with what we have been told all along.
Okay. I don't know who "we" are - but perhaps this should simply be taken as an indication that "you" are tuned in to the wrong people/sources. Beware ridiculous grossly-simplified BLOG entries & articles. I recommend <http://www.lwn.net>
But: Its been almost 3 years. No advances in KDE have been made while this rebuild was in progress. (discounting look and feel). It may be easier to maintain going forward. But three years of progress have been lost.
But with an unmaintainable code base you'd have zero progress anyway.
Previously we were told it could never go back to the way it was because the old way was a mess and couldn't be salvaged. Now you tell us that the same code base was there all along, and still is?!
Dude! There is considerable distance between "same" and "complete do over". Your interpretation of events is extremely polar. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org