On 2008/10/28 09:47 (GMT) Anne Wilson composed:
I can only conclude that they are too lazy to learn another way of doing something.
Then try thinking again, outside the box, and come up with another conclusion. Lazy is not the word I would use. Some people have a life to get on with. Many of them have found KDE3 to be the best environment to keep that life nicely moving. Now picture yourself as someone from that group who has only used openSUSE for a couple of years, a graduate from WinXP, post-W2K, who has never seen Gnome or Fedora or Ubuntu or Mandriva. Here's a picture of what might happen if they were to "upgrade" to 11.1 were it like Fedora, Mandriva & Ubuntu in having dropped KDE3 entirely: http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/kde412-desktop.html Note I made that using Fedora 10 (release cutoff was last night, images made after updating to that state). I have purposely not installed KDE4 on any of my several Factory boxes. What I see there, and it's only a sample of v3 vs. v4 differences, is a whole bunch of paradigm shifts. Little works the way I expect, if I can even figure out how to do what I want at all. There are too many differences, too many things missing, too many unfamiliar things, compared to KDE3. KDE4 should be uniquely named to differentiate it better from its vastly different predecessor, and for the foreseeable future, full KDE3 development should be continued. -- "Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry." James 1:19 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org