Larry Stotler wrote:
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:23 PM, James Knott
wrote: It strikes me that the people driving KDE 4 are more interested in "Gee Whiz" features, than function. I watched a KDE 4 demo last year and I couldn't believe what was being promoted could be considered an improvement. Judging from what I've been reading here, I wasn't far off the mark.
Keep in mind that the openSUSE KDE devs are just a part of the overall KDE team. While I have also questioned the direction of KDE4, it seems that we will be stuck with it and with trying to get the useful KDE3 features added in with all the new "Mac/Vista" "features". I do think that some of the devs haven't used a Pentium 3 system in a long time and don't realize how slow KDE4 is without the newer CPUs and graphics cards. It's almost the way Macs went. You have to have a specific card for Quartz Extreme and AGP for Core Image(which is a technical limitation of the PCI bus anyway).
[snip] Further, the economy world wide ISN'T going to get any better anytime soon, thus new PC sales have been and WILL slump even further. MOST new PC sales won't be for high end boxen. Bluntly, the dev's had better get their heads out of the clouds and get a quick reality check!! Even MickySoft HAS already gotten with the program, or so it would seem, in preparation for their 'Bloze 7 release. They know full well that they MUST reduce CPU and GPU mandates. Fred -- "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." Thomas Jefferson, 1802 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org