On Friday 19 February 2010 22:20:30 Charles Obler wrote:
I don't understand why there is such a rush to phase out things that work perfectly well. Isn't maintaining support for obsolescent equipment one of the hallmarks of Linux? Well, how about maintaining support for obsolescent users, as well?! :)
I think in some cases the sentiment is there but the resources are not. I'm sure there are many people who would help maintain KDE 3.5 if they had the time and knowledge to do so but there will likely be a situation very soon where most Distro's stop supporting some older system technologies that KDE3 depends on. Why? Well simply because they are redundant technologies. One other point of consideration is that the desktop on Linux *must* evolve. OS X has a solid interface and there is much less to hate about the current Windows interface; but neither OS X or Windows are free software. So the pace of change and innovation on Linux *must* go on, because I will always demand the most powerful and flexible solution, and the Linux desktop gives me this. I have to wonder also, would the GNOME project have made so much progress towards 3.0 without the sibling rivalry of KDE pushing version 4? Would the push to GNOME 3 have started so soon if there was no KDE4? There were certainly mutterings that it was a stagnant project in the time before the first KDE4 release; but now we see nice innovation and progress from the GNOME project too. This is great, both KDE and GNOME users are benefiting from innovation and progress. Cheers the noo, Graham -- “What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.” - Christopher Hitchens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org