KDE4

[Collins Richey]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
> David A. Bandel wrote:
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> OK, I don't know about you all, but I'm annoyed.  Just WTFO is wrong
>> with all the world's programmers?  Does something have to be different
>> to be better/improved?  And even if they think it's better, why is it
>> rammed down a user's throat with a firehose?
>
> Where have *you* been?  Apparently not on the SuSE list where this issue has
> been ongoing for nearly a year.
>
> You will find a lot of like-minded people who have "downgraded" to KDE 3.5.
>

Ditto on sidux (ie sid). After the Lenny release freeze, new versions
of xorg and kde4/qt popped up fairly rapidly, and there have been
reams of THIS SUX BIGTIME on the forum.

It's not just KDE. One of the must frustrating features of open
software is the love of reinventing the wheel. This one isn't round
enough, so we'll start over with a square-edged wheel and work to
round it off again.

Part of the initial design of kde4 is commendable - restructure the
underlying interfaces to provide a better integrated whole. Then the
desktop design folks went hog wild, and nothing that you used to like
in KDE is the same any more. I'm not a big user of all the bells and
whistles in kde, so I don't have a big problem, but those who like to
tweak everything will be lost for a good while yet.

Also, they've reintroduced (apparently) a lot of bloat, because
everything is moderately slower than in the past. I would think by
about the .6 release it will be smooth sailing again.

Meanwhile, as others have mentioned, xfce4 is a damned good
alternative, but even there it's not been smooth sailing over the past
few months.

And, of course, some of the old-favorite addon packages have
disappeared to be replaced by other offerings with cutesy names that
are impossible to grok.

 Yes, we feel your pain.

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.