Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Saturday 21 June 2008, Anders Johansson wrote:
It's not incomplete and it's not alpha. It just doesn't have everything KDE3 had. Those are two different concepts
This is developper language. I understand that what's "under the hood" is the most important - to the developpers. But since *most* people tend to think that if the number is higher, the software must be "better", they expect to get a KDE 4 working like KDE 3 at user level. And it does not.
The "first impression" one gets from a desktop environment is... the desktop. So, if the Desktop sucks, and you just tell the people this will be cured later, to them it's "incomplete" and "not finished" and "beta".
Please consider the following: Suppose you are a frustrated Vista user and you finally get it in your head to try Linux. You know nothing about KDE 3/4, beta/alpha, KDE/Gnome/X/whatever window manager, you just know you bought this box of SuSE software down at Fry's and you're gonna install the thing. You select what appears to be the default installation (remember, you don't know what a KDE is). Will you be happy with the end result? -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org