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Dale wrote: |
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> You say they dropped support. I call it dropping the ball. Same thing. |
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Sorry for "butting in"... |
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As I understand it, KDE development is mostly driven by volunteers (like |
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most OSS projects). Yes, some are probably paid/employed by interested |
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parties but this doesn't really change the fact that there are limited |
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resources that might be better to concentrate on the latest (and |
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"greatest"). Not trying to be flame-baiting but, as with all OSS |
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projects, if you don't like something, you can sharpen your hacking |
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skills and contribute/fork/whatever to get what you want. Besides, |
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comparing KDE with Microsoft is a bit unfair, don't you think? MS |
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products is payed and supported through the sale of their software. KDE |
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is free, unless you pay for support... Perhaps it's time to look around |
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for something that suits you better? For me I like simplicity/minimalism |
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and I've settled for xfce4. |
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For the record I used to run K3b with a minimal kde-support environment |
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(kdelibs, qt etc.), still under xfce4 of course, but I stopped |
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using/removed it when KDE4 was enforced. Not that I have anything |
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against qt4/KDE4 but it mandated installation of "accessibility" |
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libs/utilities + "the kitchen sink" (why that would be required is |
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beyond me; I thought accessibility was the exception and not the norm)... |
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Again, just my opinion, not meaning to upset you, Dale, or anyone else... |
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Best regards |
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Peter K |
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