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On 23 December 2006 00:42, Justin Findlay wrote: |
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> Each major release of KDE3 has introduced many amazing |
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> new features and all of that happened in the last 4 years, |
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Well, KDE turned 10 this year. ;-) |
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> The one great blight of KDE also happens to be related to its strengths |
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> and that is that kcontrol is the most nested widget-laden application in |
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> the history of the world. I've actually spent hours scouring for the |
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> one elusive checkbox only to find it days later after I had long given |
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> up. For simplicity of UI gconf-editor is much nicer even though it's |
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> not the 'official' way to edit gconf-keys. |
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The control centre has been problematic since its invention. Its complexity |
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reflects a real dilemma. How to present literally thousands of options? Sane |
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defaults are fine - still, power users want to tweak everything, and they |
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should be able to. I hope the HCI people that have got involved in KDE a |
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while back will be able to influence the overhaul of it in KDE4 to an extent |
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that it no longer intimidates people. |
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That said, you should have seen it in the begin. It has become much better |
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over the years. |
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Uwe |
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A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: |
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http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 |
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