On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:19:10 Ilya Chernykh wrote:
On Monday 16 August 2010 14:35:11 Rodney Baker wrote:
Now who's talking out of his backside get real will ya ,
There are a few problems with KDE 4.x.x but to call KDE3 and Gnome closer than KDE3 and KDE4 is just so far way off it is unprintable .
This is simply plain: KDE3, Gnome, Xfce, Lxde, E17 exploit the same paradigm of the desktop which was laid out by Xerox 8010 in 1981. KDE4 on the other hand, boldly departs from this convention.
If no-one ever "boldly (went) where no man has gone before" (to borrow a phrase from a well-known sci-fi series) then where would we be today?
But experiments on the users should not be the main endeavor of a mainstream desktop.
The same place as we were in 1981? This truly seems like a generational issue.
Nearly any mainstream operating system and desktop environment used this paradigm for 30 years. Not because nobody could not invent something different but because they could not invent anything better.
Funny, I didn't notice too many changes in the way I worked between KDE3 and KDE4. Sure, a few options have moved around, some things took a couple of minutes to find but nothing was insurmountable. Once KDE4.1 arrived I don't think I started KDE3 ever again.
Experimental DEs existed but they remained fringe. Now KDE4 devs think they can invent something better than hundreds of people could not invent for third a century? They are so confident in their endowments that are forcing users into their new vision.
Who's forcing anyone? Did anyone hold a gun to a user's head and say, "use KDE4 or else" (or anything else of the sort)? This is free software. You have the right to use it or not. You have the right to file bugs, feature requests and actively and constructively participate in the community. You have the right to submit patches. Unfortunately you also have the right to bitch and complain as much as you like to anyone who'll listen but this isn't the place to do that. If you want to contribute positively, now's the time to start. Otherwise, keep up the good work with the KDE3 repositories and leave KDE4 (and the devs) alone. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org