Kde 3.1 questions

[Collins Richey]

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On Sat, 08 Feb 2003 13:17:26 -0500
"Brett I. Holcomb" <bholcomb at intergate.com> wrote:

> 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.  

> 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.
> 

My basic objection to kde or gnome or glibc or mozilla or any other
sufficiently large piece of linux software is not so much the size
(although there is a lot of bloat), but the fact that you replace all or
nothing.  It's like replacing a brick wall because one brick has worked
its way loose!  Also, gnome and kde seem to reinvent the basic framework
and pattern of bricks with every release.  The same problem exists with
smaller projects like xfce, but you only need to replace the equivalent
of one eighth/quarter of a wall.


> > 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? 
> > 
> > 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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Collins Richey - Denver Area
Athlon-XP gentoo 1.4_rc2++ system xfce4-cvs