On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 22:20, Charles Obler <joyinstruggle@yahoo.com> wrote:
I'm not "ranting and raving", as you say, and I certainly do not wish to "heap abuse on the people who try to help". Just the opposite: I am profoundly grateful for the help. I know the people who offer help are making a great sacrifice.
Ooops, that ranting comment wasn't directed at you :-) It was in reference to the past few months of "discussion" on the mailing list whenever KDE4 has been mentioned.
I do not "actually comment on bug reports on kde.org", because I do not feel competent to do so. I don't want to clutter up the bug reports with amateurish complaints.
Mmmm.. don't discount yourself so quickly. You're a user, and you know how you want your KDE to work. It's exactly those comments that are valuable. The devs aren't looking for code samples in the comments (although that may help them)... simply describing your use case, and how you would expect some aspect of KDE to work is helpful.
Greg Freemyer writes that there HAS BEEN a gradual transition to the new KDE concept. Well, I think developers and users like me operate on a different time-scale. From the user's perspective, the transition is SUDDEN: One day I have a system I love, and the next day, a system that seems, af first sight, to be a throwback to Microsoft.
It is sudden if you're transitioning from 10.2 to 11.2... just as the differences were rather jarring if you transitioned from 8.1 to 9.3 and so on. You will always find the changes huge when you're making a significant leap like that. openSUSE 10.2 (the release you stated you migrated from) was released in the first week of December 2006... that was just over 3 years ago... that is a very very very long time in Linux development timescales.
I don't understand why there is such a rush to phase out things that work perfectly well. Isn't maintaining support for obsolescent equipment one of the hallmarks of Linux? Well, how about maintaining support for obsolescent users, as well?! :)
Limited resources. There is a fixed and very small number of core developers. they either maintain the old code and there are no advances... or they focus on new code. They chose to work on the new code. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org