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On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 04:30:02PM +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 12 May 2011 07:54:13 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> > I just hope they also learned from their mistakes. Dropping KDE3 |
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> > support long before KDE4 was ready was a big one. That shouldn't be |
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> > repeated. |
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> If it's as good as everyone says, what more support did it need? Did the |
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> KDE guys come knocking on your door to remove it, or do it remotely |
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> (Android anyone?), or did it just keep working? |
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That argument is probably valid when limiting the scope of the |
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discussion to gentoo, but the only use I ever had for kde3 was |
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for non-techie users who wouldn't know whether to poop or go |
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blind if they click on something and nothing happens (or the worng |
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thing happens). I had all but two on openSuse and the rest on Kubuntu |
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in the kde3 days, but kde3 is nowhere near as idiot-proof now on |
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either of those distros. I do not want to support non-techie users using |
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obscure, deprecated, unmaintained code for something as critical as |
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their DE! It's hard enough when everything works as advertised... |
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To be honest, I haven't quite worked up the courage to |
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put any users on gentoo, though it's become the only distro I feel |
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really good about using. If we had more uniform hardware it would |
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be a lot less daunting and I'd have probably done it already, but |
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the idea of having to manage so many individual builds is just |
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highly suboptimal. |
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> I'd say that you got excellent value for money, and a lot more support |
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> for an EOL product than you paid for. Yes, it would have been nice if they |
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> had waited until KDE4 was a little more polished before EOLing KDE3, but |
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> who would have paid for two dev teams? |
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Yes, but you should have heard the wailing and gnashing of teeth of the |
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non-tech users, it was like being surrounded by 8000 drunken harpies and |
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it lasted almost three months til they finally resigned themselves to |
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xfce. I will not go through that again. |
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