2008/10/22 James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com>:
If they substantially reduce functionality in favour of eye candy and and force us to use it, instead of 3.5 or equivalent, it is indeed crapware.
I'll bite, as that is the current arguement against Vista. But this is not what the KDE team did. 1) They did not reduce functionality in favour of eye candy. KDE 4.x has eyecandy, and does not have some functions of KDE 3.x (such that I cannot use it), but the tradeoff was neither intentional nor permanent. 2) KDE 3.x is still being developed, just recently 3.5.10 came out. KDE 3.6 may or may not be, but 3.5.11 almost certainly will.
I don't want a dumbed down computer that looks "pretty". By all means create a desktop for beginners, but don't force it on experienced users. If I wanted that, I could run Windows.
Agreed, 100%. But that is not what happened with KDE 4. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü