Dne So 20. února 2010 02:04:36 Felix Miata napsal(a):
With KDE3 there was no functionality removed. What happened was the KDE devs decided KDE3 was too complex and difficult to maintain, and so abandoned it _entirely_. Instead of starting a new project that was neither difficult nor too complex to maintain, they started a new project from scratch, the equivalent of 100% being removed by just discarding KDE3 and all its features _entirely_.
In some parallel universe maybe. In this universe the KDE3 codebase was ported to Qt4. Some components were obsolete, in too bad shape or otherwise found not worth the effort of porting and have been written from scratch instead. Some of the components were also redesigned in the process and the fact that the desktop shell was one of these and that it took for it much longer to stabilize than expected made this highly visible, but it certainly wasn't all of the components, not even close. For example the window manager in KDE4.0 was just an improvement of the KDE3.5 version with minimal regressions. Just because the KDE3->KDE4 transitions went worse than expected does not mean people need to make up far-fetched theories. -- Lubos Lunak openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org