A bit of both. Depends on what is happening. I think the biggest frustrations many folk have in the KDE3->KDE4 transition is not merely the reorganization, but the reorganization with out any concern for backward compatibility - even when it is discovered that the KDE3 functionality is still available, but things are set so that you would never guess.
Well.... in a way yes, but also, a lot of what people are yelling about (and in some cases quite rightly) is being added in. The first real try at KDE4 was 4.0.3, and it was very far from being complete. The problem is a lot of people formed their opinions of KDE4 from that - and you know the saying... first impressions... things have changed and are changing with KDE4, and most of those missing bits are being added in as they are written... as they are raised in KDE bug reports. Dotan has been very busy with those reports... :-) Having spent many years with my finger in some aspect or another of software development, I can completely understand why the code maintainers would want a rewrite... and I also understand how hard it is to do that effectively. I wonder how the similar effort with Gnome3 will go? From what i read, that will also roll in a lot of very deep and far reachign changes.. hopefully they can observe an learn from the rocky path of KDE4... and KDE5 and Gnome 3 can be much smoother releases. I'm also quite happy with KDE4 now. It works - albeit differently than KDE3 - and for me it works well. There are a few bits here and there that are not quite right, but with each release I can see them improving, and in most cases quite dramatically. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org