-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2009-12-06 at 09:37 +0100, Sven Burmeister wrote: ...
And none of those that still praise KDE3 and claim KDE4 to be unusable cared enough about KDE3 to take over the repo maintenance. Go figure.
Simple: those people may not have the time or the skills needed to do it. I know of quite a few people (long time kde users) that have just jumped ship to gnome, at least till kde4 is finished. Others have jumped distro (to Arch, for instance, where they report that kde just work).
Nobody ever claimed that KDE's users are a static group so while KDE4 attracts new users it will also drive away those that do not like the change and put off most things they do not need as bling, as e.g. the magic lamp effect which animates the minimising of a window. Yet the latter is a good example of how effects are more than bling because for new computer users clicking on minimise would just make the window disappear without any hint where it went. That's bad usability! For experienced computer users it is not worth mentioning that minimising means that the window is put into the taskbar, yet for new users? The magic lamp effect links the minimising window with its destination and does not simply make it disappear.
You have a point there. That being so, there is need of something that adjust "bling" to machine speed and capabilities; both automatic and manual. Users with older machines can then simple disable effects clicking a button or sliding a rule pointer.
When claiming that KDE4 puts one off because of changes one should never forget that KDE4 attracts new users as well and as long as more users are attracted than put off it's community will grow. One might ignore that fact and wonder why oneself gets ignored but hey, that's life. Everybody has the right to make their own decisions and if they don't like KDE4, fair enough.
It would be much better both keeping old users and attracting new users. For example, with a setup option to mimic kde3. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksblxsACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UE5gCeIYQWwsxjU2QYowI4GV4kCUmK Hj4AoILdvJoteCj2er44wZfR7bMZkQGT =vjVi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org