Torsdag 19 marts 2009 04:29:32 skrev Bob S:
On Wednesday 18 March 2009 10:25:41 am Martin Schlander wrote: First of all this is not a rant and is not directed at you Martin. I want KDE4 to work and be better than KDE3. I just get tired of when a user complains about something, the KDE4 people accuse them of ranting, not contributing, being negative for the sake of negativity, etc. They may just have a point you know. Why must they be "jumped" on and scolded like they were unappreciative children?
My take on that, is that if they weren't unappreciative children, they'd file bug reports and vote for bugs in the proper places with detailed information about the specific problems, instead of ranting on mailing lists or blogs or elsewhere which does no good for anybody.
it also has tons of improvements over KDE3.
Welllll... Now here we go! That is what all of the KDE4 fans point out. I don't think that is a true statement. I have yet to see them. Wish somebody would enumerate them or point them out to me.....Please ???....
I'm afraid it's been tried before. But this subset of users we're talking about are blind to new functionality, all they want is something that works and looks exactly like their KDE3 used to do - everything else is instantly discarded as unimportant. But just for sport I can name some examples... Okular kicks kpdf ass in lots of ways for example by supporting pdf forms and tons of different document formats. KWin effects can increase usability and productivity regardless how often it's discarded as "just eyecandy". The same can be said for plasma and plasmoids btw. It may still be a bit immature, but it's a heck of a lot better than superkaramba ever was. And with activities and folderview etc. it's already becoming flexible in many ways that kdesktop never was. Marble, a completely new application which doesn't even have a kde3 equivalent and supports openstreetmap view and lots of nice things. KMail just got support for tabs and neat aggregation modes in 4.2. Krunner does a ton things that the old run command thingy didn't do. KGet, Gwenview, KTorrrent... You could go on, pretty much any KDE4 component has plenty features that didn't exist in the KDE3 counterpart. On top of that a lot of exciting work has been and is going on behind the scenes with solid, phonon, akonadi, nepomuk etc. which isn't quite obvious to users yet, but will rock their world soon enough. And as Mark Shuttleworth famously said: "Pretty is a feature". Certain people are busily trying to paint a picture of an exodus of KDE3 users, but they're forgetting that there's a lot of migration going the other way - a lot GNOME users and others are attracted to KDE by the Oxygen prettyness and the simplicity and usability of Dolphin, Systemsettings or by the high level of innovation which isn't found in GNOME. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org