Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Wednesday 22 October 2008, James Knott wrote:
Does it have all the functionality of KDE 3.5 and is it possible to turn off all that annoying eye candy? If the answer to either question is no, then it's crapware.
No, the wording is not correct. Just because it does not work the way you want (and I want too, by the way) does not justify to call it crapware.
I can't say what KDE 4 will be in one or two years, perhaps I like it and use it then. For the time being, the added features are useless (to me) and I miss many others. So it's too soon to say good bye to KDE 3.5.x, that was my point. But calling KDE 4 "crapware" is an insult to the developpers work.
Thierry
Didn't you send that reply earlier? Regardless, if they force a dumbed down desktop on us, it's an insult to experienced users. Also, based on what I saw of KDE 4, at the Ontario Linux Fest last year, crapware is appropriate, unless they've made a lot of significant improvements. When I watched that demo by Marcel Gagne, I couldn't believe what I saw being promoted as "features", as it was largely eye candy with very little in the way of useful technical improvement. Many others in the audience had similar opinions. We didn't like what we saw. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org