Rajko M. wrote:
... I don't think that people after so much involvement in technology think on the eye candies first.
Perhaps not, but I know enough really good developers who will start out to do something that was easy, but got caught up in the evolving nature of their vision, intricacies in the implementation details, etc., such that some project of theirs that they estimated to be simple, turned out to be a pit that took a while to dig out of, once entered. It is human nature, plus probability, that this will occur at times, regardless of the talent of the developer(s) involved. For example, Bill Joy once said that the only reason vi was so Spartan, was that he had a system crash just before the BSD release it was scheduled for, and lost the entire GUI front end code, with no time to recreate it before the release. And I have heard skeptics say that perhaps the GUI turned out to be more difficult than originally envisioned. Given that I believe it was also a project for academic credit, as the story goes, this might have been the first recorded instance of the "computer ate my homework" excuse. This tale is entirely apocryphal, told mostly to illustrate a point. But under the supposed circumstances, I wouldn't have blamed him if he were grateful that he didn't have to maintain a front end for vi in addition to the editor itself. And anyway, I still like vi (and its open source CLI extensions) just fine for almost all of my system editing tasks, anyway. The schedule changes and feature issues with KDE4 don't suggest technical incompetence, or a poor choice of initial features, but rather that someone found out that some "easy things" might not actually be as easy as they first appeared. If true for KDE4, now would be the time to re-group and let those comfortable with the status quo hang on to it for as long as it takes for them to become comfortable with the state of KDE4. Personally, I have rethought my view, and new plan to spend some time getting comfortable with KDE4 in the future. But it is not where I want to spend my time on the "bleeding edge" right now. I have currently switched to Gnome, only to boldly jump into Gnome 2.26 on 11.1. But now I think I might install a future version of openSUSE with KDE4, once it matures. I have tried switching or mixing KDE and Gnome within an OS release, but don't really want to do that again. But I am more likely to follow through if I can first install the future release with KDE3, then experiment with KDE4 after, until I am convinced that I want it for every day use. -- Dan Goodman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org