On January 25, 2010 10:06:43 am Istvan Gabor wrote:
Why do KDE developers think that people who invested a lot of time to learn how to use KDE3 now will start this learning curve again? I am sure that my parents won't, they will keep using KDE3. Even if it isn't perfect there are no showstoppers in it for most of its users. KDE4 is full of showstoppers.
Yes, it was, and they're getting less and less. I refused to use KDE 4.0 and 4.1, found 4.2 barely usable and can tolerate KDE 4.3 reasonably well on my Lenovo laptop. It isn't nearly as polished as KDE 3.5.10 was, or as reliable and it does not have all the features KDE 3.5 had. It certainly is now usable, however, and I expect when OpenSuse 11.3 comes out with KDE 4.4 comes out, I'll convert the other 4 computers I run.
And how could it happen that a distribution like SUSE/openSUSE which is/was (?) famous for its reliability, stability and user friendliness included that buggy, unstable KDE4 as default KDE, and expelled KDE3 to build service?
They like having the newest and latest in the distro to compete with other distros, they didn't realize how unuseable KDE 4 was, especially for power users, nor did they really know how annoyed and frustrated KDE 3.5.10 users would be. Second, they didn't dump KDE 3.5.10. They left it in until OpenSuse 11.1, and you can still install it with 11.2 although it's more work now.
Why the KDE developers claimed their less-than beta quality product stable back then, when KDE 4.2 came out? (Now they say that it will be stable, usable at version 4.2 in August.)
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