KDE4

[Tony Alfrey]

Gary Wilson 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?
>>
>>   
> You missed the news earlier this year: Linus Torvalds ditches KDE 4 for 
> GNOME
> 
> In an interview with Computer World, Torvalds said:
> 
> I used to be a KDE user 
> <http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2009/01/linus-torvalds-ditches-kde-4-for-gnome.html#>. 
> I thought KDE 4.0 was such a disaster I switched to GNOME. I hate the 
> fact that my right button doesn't do what I want it to do. But the whole 
> "break everything" model is painful for users and they can choose to use 
> something else.
> 
> I realise the reason for the 4.0 release, but I think they did it badly. 
> They did so may changes it was a half-baked release. It may turn out to 
> be the right decision in the end and I will re-try KDE, but I suspect 
> I'm not the only person they lost.
> 

When users would make essentially the same comment on the SuSE list, 
some of the developers would say things like "can you document which 
specific thing doesn't work for you?" or "well, linux is all about 
choice, you can use a different window manager" or "did you file a bug 
report?".  Maybe Linus didn't file a bug report ;-)


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