On Thursday 25 February 2010 05:20:28 am Will Stephenson wrote:
On Saturday 20 February 2010 02:04:36 Felix Miata wrote:
With KDE3 there was no functionality removed. What happened was the KDE devs decided KDE3 was too complex and difficult to maintain, and so abandoned it _entirely_. Instead of starting a new project that was neither difficult nor too complex to maintain, they started a new project from scratch, the equivalent of 100% being removed by just discarding KDE3 and all its features _entirely_.
(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...
Will
That is pretty much at odds with what we have been told all along. We have always been told it was a complete DO-OVER. Something that shared the name only. Any time users begged for something like Kong file manager after seeing early Dolphin all we got was Dolphin in Kong clothing. The real Kong was body snatched, and just sort of disappeared. We were given this Night of the Living dead Zombie Dolphin walking around instead. We begged for multiple desktops that worked as before, but ended up with activities that even wood stakes thru the heart couldn't kill. After sufficient bitching was brought to bare, most things have by now a pretty functional KDE environment again. 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. 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?! -- __________________________________________________________ Somebody stoled my tag line, so now I have this rental... JSA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org