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KDE Responds To Misconceptions About KDE 4
Jiilik Oiolosse writes "PJ at Groklaw speaks with a member of the KDE team about some of the common myths circulating about KDE 4. 'There has been a bit of a dustup about KDE 4.0. A lot of opinions have been expressed, but I thought you might like to hear from KDE. So I wrote to them and asked if they'd be willing to explain their choices and answer the main complaints. They graciously agreed.' Among the topics discussed are: 'Releasing KDE 4.0 was a mistake,' 'I cannot put files on my desktop,' and 'KDE should just have ported KDE 3.5 to Qt 4 and not add all that other experimental stuff right away.'"
I tried KDE 4.0 when it came out. I found it lacking but viewed it as a nice start. I had to uninstall it though as for some reason it was screwing with my wireless network setup, suddenly network-manager couldn't connect. I waited and installed KDE 4.1 beta 2 and found it to be more feature complete but also much more buggy. Things would just crash for no reason, simple things like moving files wouldn't work. It was Alpha, not Beta, regardless of what title they gave it.
The KDE team made the same mistake that the Warhammer online team is making (article from yesterday about releasing with a large amount of content missing). KDE 4 has flopped hard because first impressions are everything.
I went back to gnome because, while somewhat limited in functionality (unless you know what to tweak), it's stable as a damn rock, does everything I need it too, and with GTK themes and Compiz it looks nice while maintaining a reasonable speed.
My whole problem with the KDE team is they just seem to be so arrogant. It's like they are hoping we wont notice they screwed up and if we do we're talked down to and told we're wrong. THEY gave it 4.0 status, NOT us.