Kde 3.1 questions

[Brett I. Holcomb]

No, I'm not anti-KDE - I  just don't want to use it -. nor did I speak 
against it - I simply said I read the changes and remembered why I didn't 
want to use it.  Any one who wants to use it is welcome - and I did try and 
give the man some help.

As it stands I abandoned KDE for many reasons.   One was bloat.  It's just 
so big.  One thing though was every few weeks we had to wipe out files in 
/tmp and other places and let KDE recreate them because you lost the panel 
or it wouldn't log in.  Then there was Konq - a fantastic file manager - 
bad browser as you had the try Konq at site , failed, try Mozilla - works 
routine.  I guess the final straw was that when we submitted bugs on KDE 2 
almost a year before KDE 3 was out we were told "use the beta or wait" - 
not a good situation in a production environment.

To be honest, I did think of trying KDE 3.1 as I did see the list of 
improvements but held off and now I'm seeing the same thing I saw with KDE 
3  - people in mail lists, forums, etc. having trouble that they shouldn't 
be having in installing and running it so I backed off.  I have enough 
other stuff to worry about.  

I'm not denying KDE 3.1 is different then KDE 2.x but I don't want it
's differences so I decided to stick with xfce which works and does what I 
need.  I just don't want to fight with KDE again and to try it I'd have to 
go through all the hassle of trying to compile it and then make it work.


Tim Wunder wrote:

> Man, you anti-KDE guys kill me.
> You haven't used KDE since 2.2.1, yet you're willing to speak on how bad
> it is? FYI 2.2.1 was released Spetember 19, 2001
> (http://www.kde.org/info/2.2.1.html), yes 2001!
> That's, um, a while ago...
> I assume I don't need to tell you how long 16 months is in OpenSource
> time...
> 
> If you want to dislike KDE, fine, but don't you think you should base your
> opinion on something a little more current?

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Brett I. Holcomb
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