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Jim Henderson wrote:
On Thu, 22 May 2008 23:21:02 -0400, Washington Irving wrote:
Going from KDE 3 to a KDE with the functionality of Gnome is alpha.
We expect more from KDE.
*You* perhaps do. I don't know who this "we" is to whom you refer.
Jim, you earlier said you work for Novell. Now, are you interested in the opinions inside the Novell echo chamber (every company has one about their products), or are you interested in hearing about how the rest of the world views and uses your products. Back around 1986 or so, HP introduced the HP-28C, which had about 500 built-in functions, and only a few kilobytes of user memory. HP's intention was that a user would program the calculator for a problem, run the program, and then reprogram it for a new program. They quickly discovered that they were wrong. The community wanted, most of all, more memory so that a user could keep in memory several complex programs and data in memory at one time, rather than having to erase a program to make room for another, and then have to re-enter the first program. So HP quickly did a re-design, and introduced the HP-28S, with 32k of user memory. Again users wanted more memory, AND more organization to what was stored in memory -- so the HP-40S was designed (taking the body shape of the retired HP-42C), but now added directory structures and path names to the built-in code. The most recent incarnation of the HP-28 code is in the HP-50. This calculator comes with 512 MB of user memory, and has an expansion port for off-the-shelf SD cards -- all because HP payed attention to the customer base -- even when the customers had a COMPLETELY different idea about the product than what HP did. Forget what the company THINKS users should be doing with your product and think about it, and start paying attention to how we, the user base think use it and think about it. What people on this list like about KDE as opposed to Gnome is that KDE has so much more functionality and configurability. Push a KDE version which has no more functionality than Gnome, and you're going to have a LOT of pissed-off people. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org