--- On Wed, 2/24/10, G T Smith <grahamsmith@gandalfsemporium.homelinux.com> wrote:
From: G T Smith <grahamsmith@gandalfsemporium.homelinux.com> Subject: Re: [opensuse] 11.2 a big step backwards?
Larry Stotler wrote:
To many I have talked with, "where to begin?" is the biggest problem. Quite honestly, they should have called it something else.
I would strongly agree with this sentiment. If you invent a pneumatic drill, but call it a shovel, you are bound to get people buying into the re-invented shovel to do things which you usually use a shovel for and then becoming a little bit upset when it does not or cannot do the things one expects a shovel to do.
The KDE4 project team seem to have got their act more together, but there are clearly lessons on how not to launch and market a new direction in a software project to be learned by others, as a result of the initial project delivery problems.
I've installed KDE 4.4, and things still aren't entirely right. I'm beginning to fear that this penumatic drill will NEVER be any good for shoveling snow. The main problem is that the simple snow shovel has been taken off the market, and we're told that attempts to maintain snow shovels are a dead end: We have no choice but to use this pneumatic drill. Much of the software associated with 3.5 seems to have disappeared along with the shovel: Where is KOffice? Kuickview? Freecell?
================================================ I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup ================================================
I think the computer has just taken a Great Leap Forwards: Now I no longer know how to use KDE. Still, I'm not complaining. Since the software is free, we have no right to expect anything. I'm just wondering where we are headed. Will we ever see that simple shovel again? Let's hope that KDE IS fixable. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org