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On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:50:03AM +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 12 May 2011 10:51:32 -0400, Indi wrote: |
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> > > If it's as good as everyone says, what more support did it need? Did |
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> > > the KDE guys come knocking on your door to remove it, or do it |
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> > > remotely (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 |
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> So install a distro that still supports KDE3 if that's what you want or |
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> need. KDE 3.5.10 is still there, it hasn't been withdrawn from the |
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> shelves. You're hardly likely to use Gentoo for such users, so lack of |
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> core support for 3.5 in Gentoo is not an issue either. |
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I was just sharing my opinion, which was informed by my |
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experience. I'm surprised by the vehemence and persistence |
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of (apparently) political rhetoric in response to that. |
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Obviously the solutions look really simple and matter-of-fact |
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a year and a half later. The options were rather different |
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while it was actually going on, and all one has to do is STFW |
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to see that many people went through much distress over it. |
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Frankly, I am not a fan of the "shoot the messenger" approach |
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to dealing with bad news, especially as I really don't feel |
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I've said anything but the truth of my own experience. OK I'm |
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opinionated, but that opinion is backed by experience - that |
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makes it "anecdotal experience", something big corporations spend big |
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money to compile so they can tune and shape their ideas. The message |
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I'm getting is kde guys do not want any anecdotal experience unless |
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it is glowing praise or perhaps minor suggestions, so I will not speak |
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on it anymore. |
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Employing all that sort of rhetoric has the effect of making |
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discussion uncomfortable and restrictive, which I suppose is |
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the idea. Personally, I do not wish to say any more on the matter, |
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except to note that the sort of response I've encountered does |
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not inspire hope for the future of kde. :( |
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And with that, I am "out" on this subject, so if someone now |
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needs to shame me and put me in my place again that's fine, |
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and I will not respond so you'll have the last word. Just |
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know that I do not subscribe to all that shame-based grandstanding |
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silliness, so it's pretty much wasted on me. |
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No hard feelings, I understand we all have our burdens in life. |
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:) |
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