The fall of KDE?

[alan c]

Willy Hamra wrote:
> 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!

I would like to avoid any comparison of linux with vista.
Mistakes by the party of the second part do not justify less mistakes
by the party of the first part.......
:-)
And I really like Dolphin too, once I got used to it, and found out
how to use it. Although its presence took me by surprise, as did
kubuntu 8.10.
Surprises are usually bad news, and I suspect that the kde team may
not realise that enough.
-- 
alan cocks
Ubuntu user #10391
Linux user #360648