KDE4

[Susan Macchia]

Andrew Gould wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com 
> <mailto:bmarsh at bmarsh.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Andrew Gould wrote:
>      > Now this brings up an interesting issue.  Even when all the bugs
>     are out,
>      > KDE4 is so different from KDE3.5 that many KDE users may never
>     want to
>      > switch.  Will they, eventually, be out of luck?
> 
>     I will probably never switch back....   but who are you saying will
>     be out of
>     luck?   (not using KDE at all anymore)
> 
>     _______________________________________________
> 
Ok - so I'll add my $.02.

I've always preferred KDE over gnome for many years, for lots of 
reasons.  And when I run gnome, I tend to run konsole & klipper at the 
very least.

BUT, when I updated to FC9, a very broken KDE4 was forced down my throat 
and it never worked properly (hence the use gnome with a few kde 
goodies).  I recently upgraded to FC10 both at home and work and find 
this later KDE version much stabler.

Yes - the UI is a HUGE change.  Which will definitely scare alot of 
users away.  For myself, I don't mind trying stuff out and when I 
finally found what/where/how everything was (& how things work), I 
actually like it better in many ways.

But getting it out was a very much botched job...  IMHO they should have 
switched to QT4.x with the KDE3.x look and feel and then gradually 
enhanced the UI.

FWIW...

--Susan