On 07/28/2017 08:28 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
James Knott composed on 2017-07-28 10:42 (UTC-0400):
Why would they take away something useful that's been around for years? This is the upstream pattern ever since it abandoned KDE3 to rewrite everything from scratch with QT4 for KDE4, then again with QT5 for KDE5. When new people replace retired people and start from scratch, they commonly lack the wisdom and/or initiative that went into the retired feature in the first place, and save themselves the work of understanding its value and recreating it.
Yes, corporate memory is lost when the gray-beards retire. There's also the "Not Invented Here" syndrome. "If we didn't come up with that idea it can't be worth anything" is frequently heard. I wonder if the business of losing separate widget context and wallpapers for each desktop is an example of this? That choice still confounds me and my users. Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org