Rodney Baker wrote:
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:17:15 Ilya Chernykh wrote:
On Monday 16 August 2010 10:47:39 Peter Nikolic wrote:
There is no total departure from norm set with KDE3.
You are wrong. There is nothing in common between KDE3 and KDE4 except some applications. They have definitely less in common than KDE3 and Gnome.
Now who's talking out of his backside get real will ya ,
There are a few problems with KDE 4.x.x but to call KDE3 and Gnome closer than KDE3 and KDE4 is just so far way off it is unprintable .
This is simply plain: KDE3, Gnome, Xfce, Lxde, E17 exploit the same paradigm of the desktop which was laid out by Xerox 8010 in 1981. KDE4 on the other hand, boldly departs from this convention.
If no-one ever "boldly (went) where no man has gone before" (to borrow a phrase from a well-known sci-fi series) then where would we be today? The same place as we were in 1981? This truly seems like a generational issue. Those who benefitted most from the previous design revolution are the most vocal opponents of the next. The same principle applies in many areas of life. Think of music. Those who grew up with 60's and 70's rock'n'roll for the most part didn't appreciate the 80's music. Those who loved the 80's didn't like techno, rap and house music of the 90's (etc...).
As a wise man once said, the only thing constant is change itself (I may have gotten that slightly wrong, but you get the idea).
Regardless of whether we like it or not, people will always come up with new ideas and new ways of working. Those who will survive the "revolution" will learn to adapt, make the new way of doing things work for them (as my maths teacher used to say, "learn to work the system - make the system work for you"). Those who can't adapt will stay with the old ways of doing things...
BUT, you are NOT supposed to BREAK what has been WORKING and STABLE for several years. When - I - was in IT several years ago, I wrote utilities to aid the programmers and operators in doing their jobs. However, I made SURE they were BUG FREE - BEFORE - releasing them to be used. I would spend EXTRA time and play DEVIL'S ADVOCATE to try and BREAK my utilities. So I would find most of the bugs before it even GOT in PRODUCTION. Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org