The fall of KDE?

[Willy Hamra]

2008/11/18 Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com>:
> It was easy to see coming. This is from a link on Google, meaning it
> is getting a lot of reading. How can this be good for Kubuntu? I sure
> hope the devs see stuff like this and learn. I find it very
> distasteful to watch my favorite desktop crash and burn due to bad
> planning and poor thinking.
> http://ardchoille.nfshost.com/Blog/20081116
>
> --
> Douglas E Knapp
>

the author, like a lot of other people, is missing the point. everyone
keeps complaining about how konqueror lost all of it's features
because dolphin came on the line, not true! dolphin was in KDE 3.5 and
konqueror was still feature rich. konqueror lost it's features just
because of KDE4. all of KDE lost it's features in the transition to
KDE4 due to the rewriting from scratch. and konqueror is just one part
of all the other application that suffered this loss of features.
kcontrol? it's not here, systemsettings will replace it, and it will
soon be a feature full application. and trust me, if kcontrol was
still available, it would have been a very feature missing
application, with very limited configuration options.
as for why KDE4 is not an improved KDE3? this was discussed in another
thread. rewrite is much cleaner and better. it's tiring, it's hard,
for both developers and end-users, but the end result is much better
than improving, which usually causes loads of bloat, unused code here
and there, code that is just accumulating over the years, bugs moving
on, etc... in short, the improving a program procedure, is the
procedure responsible for much of the bloat, bugs, and instabilities
of Windows, i mean really now, there is code in vista that might have
been used since the days of 95!


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Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computers and Billy Net.