G T Smith wrote:
I am mainly underwhelmed by KDE4 because it really is a rehash of some 20 year old ideas. There is no doubting the technical skill and commitment of the KDE team in the implementation, but there is an underlying dressing up of yesterdays mutton as todays lamb in KDE4 (and Vista for that matter)... The Media orientated approach may be appropriate for the gadget generation when relative affluence was the norm, but may not fit the current situation. What are really needed are some new ideas...
Frankly, I'm not seeing any significant "Media Orientated Approach" in KDE4, at least not more so than KDE3. (I will, point out I use K4 in Kubuntu, which is a lot more media friendly than Novell). But as for your other point, K4 being a "rehash of 20 year old Ideas", I'd be interested in two things: 1) What do you see in the current crop of desktops that reminds you of 1988. (Windows version 2 vintage), and which is in need of change? 2) What, other than the aforementioned multi-media, do we do on computers today that we did not do 10, 15, or 20 years ago that requires something other than a rehash? Generally something that works (such as the basic concept of different applications running in "windows" on a desktop) tend to hang around until it no longer works well, or some new invention arrives that allows a different approach. I've not seen much of either. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org