I repeat: Look, I'll admit it, the problem I had with KDE4 is my own human brain. I know it's not fair, since that makes it my fault, but it doesn't matter whose fault it is. I'm staying. The Desktop is the one that had to go. Turns out, you poke one big hole in the Desktop metaphor, make everything configurable, and it all unravels for me. I will be reconfiguring and adjusting on my deathbed. It just doesn't work for me. I tried it again and again and again and again for more than a year.
>>I read dot.kde.org regularly, and Planet KDE. Every single KDE dev was quite clear that KDE 4.0 wasn't for everyone on day one, and it wouldn't have feature parity with KDE 3.5 on day one.
AHA! Now I get it. Go to dot.kde.org and planet KDE for information. I went to kde.org, and i got public relations hype.
That's revisionist. I remember going to the KDE website when 4.0 was released, and the emphasis on KDE4 was all over the place. I was pretty naive about Desktop development, and I was confused about what was going on, and with my level of sophistication at the time, i couldn't find info on KDE3.
I could write a book on this topic, and maybe i should. I gave up on KDE finally and forever about a week ago after using KDE4, up to 4.6, for a year and a half. I'm using XFCE with Slackware and Ubuntu, and live CDs (Slax and Porteous) that use KDE3 and Trinity) Look, I'll admit it, the problem I had with KDE4 is my own human brain. I know it's not fair, since that makes it my fault, but it doesn't matter whose fault it is. I'm staying. The Desktop is the one that had to go.
The problem is that once I start adjusting KDE4 to restore a semblance of the desktop metaphor that I understand , I will never stop adjusting. If KDE had only made the more familiar folderview the default (see Aptosid, PC Liinux OS, and Mepis) and allow me to work out from there, I wouldn't have had a problem. Turning the Desktop display into a widget by default shouldn't mess with my head so much, but it does. Admit it, KDE, you did that BECAUSE you wanted to disrupt the desktop metaphor.
To put it another way, what KDE3 can do that KDE4 cannot do is permit me to not think about the fucking desktop all the time, and get some fucking work done .
And to put it still another way, KDE4 wasn't a disaster, it was an important leap forward. Losing KDE3 would be a disaster, but that's not going to happen.
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I repeat: Look, I'll admit it, the problem I had with KDE4 is my own human brain. I know it's not fair, since that makes it my fault, but it doesn't matter whose fault it is. I'm staying. The Desktop is the one that had to go. Turns out, you poke one big hole in the Desktop metaphor, make everything configurable, and it all unravels for me. I will be reconfiguring and adjusting on my deathbed. It just doesn't work for me. I tried it again and again and again and again for more than a year.
>>I read dot.kde.org regularly, and Planet KDE. Every single KDE dev was quite clear that KDE 4.0 wasn't for everyone on day one, and it wouldn't have feature parity with KDE 3.5 on day one. AHA! Now I get it. Go to dot.kde.org and planet KDE for information. I went to kde.org, and i got public relations hype.
That's revisionist. I remember going to the KDE website when 4.0 was released, and the emphasis on KDE4 was all over the place. I was pretty naive about Desktop development, and I was confused about what was going on, and with my level of sophistication at the time, i couldn't find info on KDE3.
Yes I am. I used KDE4 from .3 to .6, and that's what I'm saying. Strange, isn't it?
The panel in KDE4 is still clunkier than 3, and with far less options.
I could write a book on this topic, and maybe i should. I gave up on KDE finally and forever about a week ago after using KDE4, up to 4.6, for a year and a half. I'm using XFCE with Slackware and Ubuntu, and live CDs (Slax and Porteous) that use KDE3 and Trinity) Look, I'll admit it, the problem I had with KDE4 is my own human brain. I know it's not fair, since that makes it my fault, but it doesn't matter whose fault it is. I'm staying. The Desktop is the one that had to go. The problem is that once I start adjusting KDE4 to restore a semblance of the desktop metaphor that I understand , I will never stop adjusting. If KDE had only made the more familiar folderview the default (see Aptosid, PC Liinux OS, and Mepis) and allow me to work out from there, I wouldn't have had a problem. Turning the Desktop display into a widget by default shouldn't mess with my head so much, but it does. Admit it, KDE, you did that BECAUSE you wanted to disrupt the desktop metaphor. To put it another way, what KDE3 can do that KDE4 cannot do is permit me to not think about the fucking desktop all the time, and get some fucking work done . And to put it still another way, KDE4 wasn't a disaster, it was an important leap forward. Losing KDE3 would be a disaster, but that's not going to happen.