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KDE 4.2 Is Released
OhReally writes "It's a great day for Free Software: KDE, the desktop environment for Linux, Windows, Mac, and (Open)Solaris, has just reached version 4.2, exactly a year since the release of 4.0. This is a version suitable for broad usage, with many improvements all across the board, and lots of bugfixes. You can leave a comment or congratulate the developers here."
You guessed wrong, I have been using KDE exclusively since 1998, except for my gaming M$ machine. I just want to use my computer to do its job exactly the way it has always done, I don't want to be retrained unless it's an improvement. I think a new user interface is OK, but the old functions should be the default ones.
A new set of icons? Sure, anyone is free to install it. I did import the kde classic icon theme once, I don't want to redo that job again and again just because some developer is too lazy to create a function to import the settings file automatically. The old K menu? It should be there by DEFAULT. Don't like the traditional K menu? Delete it! Do not force people to ADD things or LEARN things just to keep it working the way it did before.
The change from KDE 3 to 4 should have been as smooth as "apt-get dist-upgrade" and then working exactly as before but, from time to time, finding this neat new function that makes one say "wow, this is great!". It should not make one stop everything one was doing until one learns how to configure things.
The problem with KDE developers is that they started thinking KDE is the center of the universe. Well, it isn't. Computers exist to make things easy. I use a computer as a tool, I don't want to be distracted from my job or from my hobby just because some user interface developer thinks he has had a great new idea.
Kubuntu? Beat yourself up much? At least try it on a distro that knows how to put KDE together....
This KDE guy is using hindsight to explain what they did. I don't believe him. They messed up. Even remotely considering a little plasmoid as the desktop was a total joke. I used Linux day in and day out and anything without a traditional desktop metaphor would have been a joke--the KDE guys were trying to redefine against the face of what we all wanted.
I know KDE 4.2 has the option to use a traditional desktop, but you can see by them setting the dinky plasmoid as default that they still believe in their vision. Wrong!
Again, hindsight is the better part of valor. These guys are revising their response to fit what they saw happen, because we here will accept anything, because we know there are thousands (or millions) of opinions that can be voice on the matter.
You can lead a man with reason but you can't make him think.
Yeah... windows definitely must have ripped off KDE's interface.
Window with Minimize, Maximize and then close in the top right.
A Large application list at the bottom which has a launcher icon on the left. Then some quicklaunch icons and then running applications. Finally on the bottom right we have some notification icons and persistent apps and lastly a clock.
Wait... what's this? Instead of having an address bar they've moved to a bread crumb system?
And is that a Vista st---sorry KDE style gradient on the taskbar I see?
And in the official screenshots are those "My Computer" and "My Documents" Icons I see?
Yep. I'm suprised KDE doesn't sue Microsoft for look and feel infringement. Because Windows is just one giant rip off of KDE.
What exactly is this Worldwide Standard Numbering Scheme that people seem to be referring to when they make these comments? Did you pick it, Mr. Coward? Is there a spec for it? Did I miss a big email here or something?
Hey, I finally got my first freak! Took you long enough!