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Indi wrote: |
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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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+1 |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |