On 07/28/2017 12:02 PM, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
On 07/28/2017 08:28 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
James Knott composed on 2017-07-28 10:42 (UTC-0400):
Why would they take away something useful that's been around for years? This is the upstream pattern ever since it abandoned KDE3 to rewrite everything from scratch with QT4 for KDE4, then again with QT5 for KDE5. When new people replace retired people and start from scratch, they commonly lack the wisdom and/or initiative that went into the retired feature in the first place, and save themselves the work of understanding its value and recreating it.
Yes, corporate memory is lost when the gray-beards retire. There's also the "Not Invented Here" syndrome. "If we didn't come up with that idea it can't be worth anything" is frequently heard. I wonder if the business of losing separate widget context and wallpapers for each desktop is an example of this? That choice still confounds me and my users.
Regards, Lew
I went round-and-round with the plasma devs and konqueror: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373887 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373866 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373737 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374193 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373824 My overall impression was they didn't really care if konqueror continued to work, or work well -- or not... To their credit, some of the issues have been addressed, but you still end up pulling your hair out trying to get it to open up to a saved-session state and the navigation pane is still of limited use compared to kde3. Have had no problem after returning to kde3 :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org