<< major rant following; skip unless you're in the mood... >> On Friday 02 October 2009 01:58:18 am David C. Rankin wrote:
And... I'm but a mere 43, not grumpy and have no veranda (It's called a porch in Texas)
i know you're not 65, i've seen the photo on your website. i'm actually your 'senior' -- in years (10), and i suspect grumpyness too.
but I do lament the days gone by when the complete focus of the KDE team was on (1) logical ease of use, accomplished in (2) the least number of mouse clicks or keystokes possible. And, yes, I do feel that focus has been completely lost on the current generation of kde developers.
yes, i'm also not happy how linux gets more and more focused on gui & eye candy. sure, it's a lot easier for many things, and lynx isn't my favorite webbrowser, but still... for a long time i've been using fluxbox with KDE applications (both 3 & 4), but after upgrading my machine recently the speed gain became immaterial and i stuck to KDE 4.3. still don't like the plastic finish, but it's not causing any major disturbance.
But no, I don't dream of days gone by, I am a fully committed kde4 supporter and user. (138 bug reports worth IIRC). I like the desktop, but I am opinionated, and I am of the firm opinion that the readiness of KDE4 was grossly misrepresented starting in June '08, and that is it just now reaching an honest '.04' first release state.
agreed.
I also hold a great many other opinions, as many good as bad, but it is just determined by the way an issue hits me as to the one you will get.
i have no problem with that, but i also understand how developrs can get upset at the not-so-friendly tone you sometimes use. they are spending their time developing what we are using, and sometimes you really don't sound as if you appreciated that. i'm pretty sure that impression is wrong, but that isn't always clear from some of your posts. at the same time some of the developers are too quick to take offense and treat users that don't agree with them badly. that's life, i guess; people do get affected by stress and many other things in their lives, and this medium make it easy to say things one probably wouldn't say face-to-face. thing is emotional outbursts don't help to get one's point across. once either or both parties get angry it becomes more difficult to listen to each other -- but that's required to solve problems. developers need users like you to point out what could or should be done better, and users need developers, or there won't be anything to use, of course. doesn't seem feasible to always control one's emotions--we're humans after all; therefore the point i was trying to make is not to take such emotional outbursts too seriously.
If you haven't figured it out by now, I don't sugar-coat anything;-)
wouldn't have noticed... :o -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org