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KDE Responds To Misconceptions About KDE 4

Posted by Soulskill on from the feedback-is-good dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:OS X vs. KDE and others by jacquesm · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have both mac os/x and linux here and I *far* prefer KDE (3) over os/x, I just can't seem to get used to the main menu switching all the time depending on what has focus. I prefer 'stateless' designs over state any time.

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  2. Re:Misconceptions? by Ash-Fox · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If KDE4 is not finished, why announcing it as a deliverable product?

    What distribution ships with KDE4 as the desktop by default? I'm not aware of any.

    What everyone expects from a new major release is no less features and stability than the older ones.

    I didn't expect a feature complete KDE4.0, but that is because I actually read the announcements by the KDE team.

    Whenever this is not the case, a flop is waiting at the corner (as a lot of people learned from Vista).

    How does Vista have less features than XP and where does it lack functionality where XP has?

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  3. KDE 4.0 as a beta by golodh · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Wise words! Just wait patiently for the KDE developers to sort things out and make sure you have an alternative.

    However I firmly believe that KDE really messed up when it comes to mamaging user expectations.

    Call something KDE 4.0 and people will believe it's fully functional ready to roll. And find themselves sorely disappointed. Call it "KDE 4.0 Developer Release" and people will understand what it is and is not.

    One thing that irks me in KDE's reply though is that they give the impression that they clearly communicated what KDE 4.0 was and was not. I disagree. I visited kde.org a few times to find precisely that information, and it simply wasn't there.

    That's why I was so happy with SuSE's honest and up-front statement about KDE 4.0 (see http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=528652&cid=23135548 ) that told me everything KDE.org didn't. No amount of post-furor explanations will take that away.