Richard wrote:
On Sat September 13 2008 6:34:08 pm Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Larry Stotler
[09-13-08 14:54]: KDE4 has been slower than KDE3, unstable,
Please support this argument as I have paid close attention to this list and all the anti KDE4 retoric and have yet to see anyone else agree or propose this, but you. All the statements about KDE4 lend to very much attention to removing glut and making it faster, but you continually write about it being the opposite. Were all the developers efforts for naught or is there a perceptual problem here?
Somehow the words come to mind, "dead horse".
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Larry does NOT come across as ANTI KDE4, he comes across as KDE4 devs are prematurely attempting to replace a fucntional desktop environment, KDE3 before KDE4 is ready. He has repeatedly stated that he supports the development of KDE4 and he simply opposes the premature removal of KDE3. And KDE4 *is* slower on my machine at doing most things I attempt and I have plenty of horsepower and memory. I perceive that KDE4 spends a lot of time being pretty and not enough time *doing* the requested job. This ignores also the time lost in figuring out *how* to get it to do what is intuitive in the old, outmoded, ancient KDE3 that still 'just works'. I applaud his dogmatic stance NOT to eliminate KDE4 but to eliminate the premature elimination of KDE3 from the distro. He has repeatedly stated that when it is ready to replace KDE3 people will jump on it (I add) like flies on s**t, but until then don't expect the flies to like vinager.
Correct! It's also SLOWER (4.1) on ALL my boxen AND clients I tried it on, so it was removed. I have high hopes for it, bit it's just NOT anywhere near ready yet. It MUST be a functionally equal replacement. Fred -- “While addressing the [GOP convention], Sarah Palin criticized Barack Obama for not having enough ‘specifics.’ Obama was reportedly angry about the claim, but didn’t say exactly why.” —Conan O’Brien -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org