At 10:16:13 on Tuesday Tuesday 15 December 2009, Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister@gmx.net> wrote:
Am Dienstag, 15. Dezember 2009 00:36:04 schrieb Stan Goodman:
I am very discouraged, because this monstrosity is filled with changes that are not improvements upon KDE3, but AT BEST simply barriers to a learning curve, and are often clumsy replacements for easy to use procedures, entirely for the sake of introducing new gewgaws. I do not know what the members of the KDE are smoking or drinking, but what they have done is to produce a whore's dream (or nightmare) from a useful and usable, reasonably user-friendly desktop environment. And their excuse is that, since you didn't pay for it, you were never entitled to be polled about your preferences or desires, and you can lump it. That's fascism.
Using the word "fascism" in this context is really wrong to say it politely! Did you even think what you imply regarding those that took part in the process/project you call "fascism" are KDE4 devs fascist for you?
I do indeed. And I stand by what I wrote. Counter-question: Do you ever think of what your users would prefer? Apparently not. Once you are in a monopoly position in the Linux world (one of only two major desktop options, and hitherto the most attractive), many people might argue that you have a moral responsibility to your users -- at a minimum, to inquire about their preferences.. Apparently you do not. Was the switch to a different programming technology forced upon you? Or did it seem like great fun to give it a whirl, and users be damned.
Nobody has to excuse himself for spending his free time to create something you chose to use.
I have read those words from you many times, and I have expressed my opinion about them before, and in my paragraph just above. I do not believe that my opinion is unusual in the user community, but of course, you are entitled to your own opinion too. Free choice, you know. Personally, I think your stance is arrogant.
Further the sysinfo:/ where you could get the right-click to eject was not part of KDE3 but an openSUSE patch. Yet if I consider the attitude in your text, explanations are not what you are looking for in the first place.
openSuSE can goof too. They don't make a habit of it. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org