> Anytime you end up on the front page of a major portal (Google) with > this sort of publicity ,even if the story is wrong, you have fallen. > In this case the wrongness is contested by many. I suppose that's true if you're preoccupied with publicity... I'm not a member of the KDE team, but since they're not trying to sell anything I don't see how it's anything more than an annoyance. They have just as many developers working just as hard as ever, so it's not affecting the project. KDE will be around and popular for the foreseeable future, and "the fall of KDE" is simply sensationalist. <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Willy K. Hamra <<a href="mailto:w.hamra1987@gmail.com">w.hamra1987@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">Knapp wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Dotan Cohen <<a href="mailto:dotancohen@gmail.com" target="_blank">dotancohen@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 2008/11/18 Knapp <<a href="mailto:magick.crow@gmail.com" target="_blank">magick.crow@gmail.com</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. <a href="http://ardchoille.nfshost.com/Blog/20081116" target="_blank">http://ardchoille.nfshost.com/Blog/20081116</a> </blockquote> The author is an idiot lets take a typical example from his rant: """Secondly, the developers who wrote the application should know their code, and if they know their code then they know where all the bugs are. If they don't know where all of the bugs are then they have no business writing software for the public.""" Should I start picking that statement apart? The rest of his rant is likewise worthless. -- Dotan Cohen </blockquote> I have to disagree with you. I know when I write bugs in my software, I always write down their locations! </blockquote> </div> now tell me this. how many bugs have you wrote that you weren't aware of them? that's really silly. there are tons of bugs in every software, and most of them are bugs the developer isn't aware of. it gets even worse with software as huge as a Desktop Environment, since you'll also be subjected to different behaviour on different hardware! do you expect the KDE dev team to try every single hardware configuration available? i really agree with Dotan here, the author *is* an idiot, and KDE 4.1 is not very buggy. there's a whole difference between feature-lacking software, and buggy software! KDE 4.1 is lacking features, that doesn't make it buggy. i'm not saying it's bugless, but it's not that aweful as well. so far, i get a program crash about once every 3 days, which is just a program crashing, and funnily, i's a non-KDE app crashing, as for a system crash, or plasma system crash, or any major crash, i haven't seen any from the days of alpha4. -- <div class="Ih2E3d"> Willy K. Hamra Manager of Hamra Information Systems </div> Co. Manager of Zeina Computer & Billy Net -- kubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>