On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Graham Anderson <graham.anderson@gmail.com> wrote:
Perhaps on this self admission, and after admitting in numerous posts that you are not willing to learn about KDE4; you should stop trolling/whining on every thread with the slightest KDE4 mention.
To begin, I rarely post on these lists anymore mainly because of attitudes like yours that state that I shouldn't have my own opinion and that I shouldn't share it since no one here seems to care. As for WHY those of us who are having issues with KDE4 hang around, it's mainly because a lot of us have been USING and SUPPORTING KDE for a long time. I've used KDE since S.u.S.E. v5.3, an loved it till KDE4 came out. KDE4 is a completely different philosophy and design than any KDE preceding it, and needless to say many of us aren't happy with the change. I shelled out money for MANY SUSE releases which went towards putting code back into the community to improve Linux for everyone. I wouldn't shell out a dime for KDE4. Last time I checked Linux and openSUSE was about freedoms. And part of that freedom is that we have a right to disagree with the direction the distro and it's underlying code has taken. I've make several requests so that those of us who want an easy way to turn off the new bling have one, like porting KPersonalizer over. I don't code, so I can't do it. I never heard if anything was done along those lines. S.u.S.E. always had a reputation for using cutting edge stuff, but they also had a reputation for stability. It wasn't always perfect, but neither is anything else. For may KDE4 isn't ready for prime time, even at 4.4. I have just as much right to offer advice of my preferred solution of using 11.0/KDE3.5 as you do to suggest ways to help make KDE4 more bearable. So far I have seen ZERO compelling reasons to use KDE4. So long as that is the case, I will recommend using KDE3 or something else. That may change. The KDE team may realize how much stuff they removed was actually used at some point. Till then, well, we shall have to agree to disagree. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org