The fall of KDE?

Justin eqisow at gmail.com
Tue Nov 18 20:46:47 UTC 2008


The problem, imo, is and has always been Kubuntu's mediocre implementation
of KDE. As far as Canonical is concerned, KDE is the readheaded stepchild.
It simply doesn't get the same level of attention as Gnome.

Also, what you have to keep in mind is that while Canonical may be releasing
commercial software, the KDE team is not. You don't wait and release
software when it's "finished," you play with your cards on the table and let
your users help and guide the creation process. If you don't have the time
or inclination to do that, fine. The KDE team has been very clear about what
KDE4 is and what users should expect. That, plus the fact that the KDE 3.5
series is still being maintained means you have nothing to complain to the
KDE team about.

Perhaps the Kubuntu team should have left 3.5 as the default or, like Suse,
made it an option at install time. That, however, is a failure of Canonical
and the Kubuntu team and is not "the fall of KDE."

KDE4 is an overhaul of a HUGE piece of software. Given the total time in
development it is my opinion that KDE 4.1.3 is a titanic accomplishment and
will surely become something great.

-Justin Newman

P.S. - I find it somewhat ironic that, so far, the best KDE4 distros ahve
been the ones that simply use vanilla KDE.

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 3:26 PM, nepal google <nepal.roade at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On Tuesday 18 November 2008, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Kcontrol _has_ been removed (for the life of me, I can't
> > see why he thinks he could do anything in it he can't do
> > in System Settings, but he _is_ right that it's gone.
> >  Perhaps he's just a little slower than me in realizing
> > that much of what you saw in kcontrol is now in the
> > "Advanced" tab of System Settings (it certainly took _me_
> > long enough to catch on).
>
>
> I'm just in the process of setting up 8.04 and one thing I
> really never liked is KWallet. I looked at all the options
> of System Settings and could not find where to turn it off.
> So I ran KControl and knew immediately where to go to turn
> this off. This is the kind of thing that p****es off users
> like me having to waste time trying to find out where
> something has been moved to.
>
> nepal.
>
> hehe, now to see if this email is actually working or not.
>
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