KDE4

[Andrew Gould]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net>wrote:

> Gary Wilson wrote:
>
>> 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 ;-)
>
>
> --
> Tony Alfrey
> tonyalfrey at earthlink.net
> "I'd Rather Be Sailing"
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>

Why would he?  I thought someone gave him a Macbook Pro.  ;-)
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