Am Mittwoch 03 Dezember 2008 23:27:25 schrieb Larry Stotler:
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Herbert Graeber
wrote: No, the opposite. Vista keeps all of its past alive.
Ah, no. Vista has broken with enough hardware and software that most businesses can't "upgrade" to it.
Yes, but nevertheless it carries much of its past with it.
KDE4 tries to port everything worth doing things the new way. Unfortunately this needs mcu hresources in people and time, so not everything is read from the start and some things will be left behind.
What was so wrong with the old way? Oh wait, they wanted to add bling, and KDE3 couldn't do it. That's the motivation.
This bling is neccessary, to meet expectations of potential new users. The only thing that's wrong with the old way, that it may be in the way, when there is a new more flexible method, to achive the same or better results.
A clean KDE4 (without anything from KDE left) will need less resources then KDE3 alone.
That's the rumor. So far I haven't seen it.
Sure that's the future. Currently ther are some things, where one needs KDE3 applications to fill the gap.
BTW: This is the wrong list for such things. The decision to go this way has been made by the KDE project, not by openSUSE. Yes there are KDE developers on this list, but only a small fraction of them.
No thanks. I don't need to butt heads against people who have already decided that KDE4 is better and have forgotten what made KDE3 great.
But to get the features, you want, you have to convince the KDE developers. The openSUSE project can only keep KDE3 alive for another version of the distribution, but some day KDE3 is really dead and in terms of progress it is already dead right now.
Give me easy options to turn off eye-candy. And no, I don't NEED widgets. They are useless to me and annoying. Like the OS X and Vista Dock. Is KDE4 going to have a way to emulate the KDE3 desktop? If so, then what was the point?
Use a folder plasmoid, that covers the whole desktop and some plasmoids in the panel instead of task icons and you have nearly the same like a KDE3 desktop. Sure, there are some things missing. KDE devolpers working for Novel have backported many features of KDE 4.2, because openSUSE users demand them. But have alokk on http://planetkde.org: Not all KDE developers like that, because they will get many additional bug reports because of this. Everything has two sides... Herbert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org