On Wednesday 24 February 2010 17:10:46 Larry Stotler wrote:
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com> wrote:
I think you're doing the wrong comparison here. When Vista appeared, it was considered by many a major change and disruption. And KDE 4 was a similar kind of major change. It's not a step backwards, it's a very big step forwards that breaks backward compatibilty and usage in some ways,
There are other similarities tho Andreas. Vista was supposedly a rewrite like KDE4 is suppoed to be a rewrite, but many existing bugs from older versions plague both platforms.
I realize that it's not the openSUSE team's fault that the KDE team took a radically different direction with KDE4. You guys just package up what they offer(and contribute back as you can). However, KDE4 has had a lot of shortcomings to say the least.
I think we have a better experience than with Vista but a similar disruption for some. And speaking with KDE developers and seeing some of the things they develop in KDE, I think KDE has a really great architecture and will succeed. KDE4 is different and change is something that most people don't like. Whether there are significant shortcomings or not, is something we could discuss for ages. The question is whether we're open to change and understand it, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126