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Indi wrote: |
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> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 03:50:02PM +0200, Dale wrote: |
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>> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> They can do any damn thing they want to with their code. They also you owe |
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>>> support for it in exactly the same amount you paid for it. Which is to say |
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>>> "nothing". |
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>>> It's not a question of "should", it's only a question of "Dale would prefer it |
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>>> if" |
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>> So, you think most of the KDE users were happy to see support for KDE3 |
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>> being dropped, especially considering KDE4 was much less than stable? |
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>> For me and a lot of others, it was worthless at first. It was good eye |
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>> candy but not functional even for the little I do. |
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>> Yea, it is what I want but it is also what MANY others wanted. Some of |
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>> those people switched to something else or still use KDE3. It's their |
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>> code, but if people stop using it, what is it really worth? I'm sure |
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>> KDE wants to gain users not piss them off and make them go away. |
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>> For me, if KDE does such a lousy switch over again, I'll be using |
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>> something else. Given the posts I read where others have already done |
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>> so, I doubt I would be alone. I'm all for second chances. We all learn |
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>> the hard way sometimes. I'm just hoping KDE did. |
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> I had 8 users on kde before 3 was deprecated in 2009. |
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> Now I have zero. It was a harrowing time, switching |
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> everyone to gnome, finding that is not so hot, finally |
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> putting them on xfce. If xfce gets a wild hair and changes |
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> my plan is to dumb down the fluxbox or openbox |
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> configs I have for my own use, add some scripting and call |
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> it a day. |
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> No-one disputes the freedom of the devs to do anything |
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> they wish with their code. |
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> It's just like anything else in life: you're free to do |
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> anything you want. Just know the consequences before |
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> you act or you may get burned. |
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Yep. A lot of KDE users was upset. The thing is, if they had got out |
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just a few more releases, it would have been much better. They were |
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improving KDE4 pretty fast but not fast enough. Since KDE3 was fairly |
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complete, all it needed was a little love here and there. They didn't |
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have to reinvent the wheel every month to keep KDE3 running. It can't |
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be to bad since some users got together and are still maintaining KDE3 |
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tho I don't know how good that is working out since I don't have it |
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installed here anymore. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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