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On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 04:40:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 16:00 on Thursday 12 May 2011, Indi did opine |
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> thusly: |
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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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> So why didn't you just leave the users on KDE3? |
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For the same reason I didn't leave them on windows 98 se. |
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Yes, it technically "still works" but is far less useful |
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than it was when it was enthusiastically supported by its |
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creators and still considered one of two default choices |
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for DE duty. |
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I'm sorry if this discussion has offended you, Alan. |
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That was certainly not my intent. |
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However, admins with stories like mine are not at all uncommon, |
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and the bottom line is that kde4 lost a lot of users to other |
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DEs. The kde devs clearly bit off more than could chew, but |
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obviously that's water under the bridge now. But to deny it or |
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make excuses now does no service to anyone. "Oops, better not do |
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that again", is what we all hope they learned. We all make mistakes, |
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just don't make the same ones repeatedly! :) |
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caveat utilitor |
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