John Andersen said the following on 05/16/2013 11:59 PM:
Come on! You're reaching. If you don't want to use KDE4, just say you are stubborn and leave it lay at that, but don't ask for "official" ways to do anything with a system that has been dead for 5 years.
No, leave him be. He's essentially saying that he won't upgrade his car because he can't get it in the colour of the old one. Now that may seem silly to you and me, but the point is that its important to him. Well, perhaps not colour, but you can find a lot of example in society of people sticking with 'the old way' for various reasons up to and including "well my grandfather was born and died in this house and I'm not moving from it". I suppose we all have out idiosyncrasies and for the most part they don't matter except when they either get imposed on people or they get in the way of society; like Spocks "The need of the many outweigh the needs of the few". People has postyed here about staying with 11.4 for good reasons and ther is a suport group for the people who want to stay with KDE3. THis does not give wither of them the right to denigrate later version of the system of KDE with suchh accusations as "it still has not reached the stability, usability and overall quality of the abandoned KDE3". Any new thing, be it a automobile, computer or piece of software, means changes (otherwise why bother?). Some represent the start of a new sequence rather than just a refinement of an old one such as electric cars not being a further refinement of the internal combustion engine). -- Few problems cannot be solved by proper application of high explosives. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org