On Tuesday 20 May 2008 21:57:13 Washington Irving wrote:
G T Smith wrote:
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Basil Chupin wrote:
I do not think that sparking off a desktop religious war is terribly helpful at this point. (Especially, with some of the other fireworks going off around this issue).
If KDE4 is moving toward a 'user friendly' == 'dumbing down' path I am
You mean becoming part of the 21st century? The days of working in a little black box date back more than 30 years. While some enjoy entering mystical incantations there many others don't. What's the point of not using a graphical interface after all the little black box is still there if your mad enough want it and use 70's technology. It isn't crippled a la dos either. User friendly - dumbing down isn't the correct word. All facilities should be available from the desktop. Maybe people who feel like that should search the term "ludites". Many may well know what it means allready.
among those not interested. I used to choose KDE over Gnome mainly because Gnome tended to be rather counter intuitive to use and ugly to look at, but I always felt that KDE tried too hard at being a poor mans Windows clone, (and I was never a particular fan of the Post 3.x systems).
Having no alternative other than working proffessionally with windoze I just can't view kde as a poor relation. It isn't. It's a much richer working environment that also offers the same conveniences. A user can make use of these or just use it. It's also lead the way on occasions. Gnome on the the other hand has a very windoze attitude to the users and an interesting user interface
KDE started out being based on the principles of CDE, which is re-named HP-VUE. A major improvement over CDE, however, was putting minimized processes in the task bar instead of on the desktop like in CDE/HP-VUE.
One thing I will say about kde4. For some reason the desktop looks even more beautiful. I have no idea why. Desktops are an art form. It really shouldn't be forming part of a major release yet though. From the little bit I've seen it's going to get bad press before it's even ready for release. John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org