On December 4, 2008 01:20:02 pm Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E. R.
[12-04-08 07:29]: On Thursday, 2008-12-04 at 13:13 +0100, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
On 12/4/2008 at 1:02 PM, "Carlos E. R."
wrote: It is not: keep using kde3, then. No, you tell them to switch to
icewm.
Why is no-one using kde2 or kde1 ?
Keep KDE3, don't use the new features, don't upgrade to newer OSS Versions. If you agree to have one part kept in an old, unsupported state, why should you care for the rest?
Security updates, software compatibility.
You forget the part about "Linux supports old hardware, you do not need to keep buying new hardware every three years, as the windows users have to do". What you are proposing is the Microsoft way of business, for Linux. Good for hardware companies (and for companies selling new version of existing software), bad for users.
Forcing users to buy new hardware is not the way for Linux.
but they are not "forced", unless they wish the new features, security, pretty graphics/desktop.
But we're going to be, when opensuse no longer includes kde3. It seems already that old kde3 bugs are simply being ignored. All of it results from a decision to start from scratch instead of extending KDE3. Many of us absolutely don't give a damn about bling, and would have preferred having bugs in KDE3 fixed. What's more, they've invested time and energy in learning and using KDE3 and aren't looking forward to change in the look of their desktop or the way they use it. And none of them feel they were consulted about the new direction in kDE4. I say all this not because I want to re-open that discussion, or because I'm critical of the developers but rather to indicate why a lot of people are not ready to sign on to KDE4 yet. KDE4 might have a lot more supporters had it not been released in as buggy a state as KDE4 was, and if there was a process to automatically take our KDE3 settings across to a new KDE4 install. I've installed KDE4 as well as KDE3 on my laptop to assess how well it works. It still doesn't look at my KDE3 mail, news, wallet, kpilot settings and migrate them to a new KDE4 desktop. -- bob@rsmits.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org