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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:58:31 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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>> Can you accept the fact that KDE dropped support for KDE 3? |
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> Of course, they have stated so themselves. |
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>> KDE dropped the ball. |
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> This is the statement I disagreed with. Dropping support is a fact, based |
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> on a sound decision. This statement is you saying they were wrong, purely |
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> because their decision does not suit you. KDE 4 is workable, it's not as |
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> mature as 3.5 and I only switched a few months ago, but it is getting |
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> there and better in many respects. Diverting resources to work on an |
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> obsolete product would only slow the development of KDE 4. KDE 3 still |
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> works so what's the problem? |
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> It's not like they switched off KDE 3, they just stopped adding new |
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> features, which makes perfect sense to me. There are people in a position |
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> to fix and security issues that may arise, but that doesn't have to be |
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> KDE themselves, and wasn't always them in a past. |
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You say they dropped support. I call it dropping the ball. Same thing. |
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As bad as I hate M$, one thing I can say, they have never to my |
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knowledge dropped support for a OS unless and until the replacement is |
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fully functional and stable, as finctional and stable as windoze can get |
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anyway. At least they don't leave people with a unsupported OS while |
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they spend a year or two getting the new one ironed out. I don't think |
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KDE will take that long but winders does. Most reasonable people agree |
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that KDE should have supported KDE 3 for at least a few more months. |
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You say KDE 4 is workable. For me, it isn't. If I log into KDE 4, I |
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have to switch back to KDE 3 to do some of my normal day to day things. |
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Some of the things I do can't be done in KDE 4 yet. They will be when |
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they get the time to fix it but right now it doesn't work, for me or |
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others on the KDE mailing list. The problems I ran into have already |
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been discussed on the KDE mailing list and they say I just have to wait |
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until it gets fixed, updated or just plain coded in. |
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So, KDE 3 is still not being supported even after all this. Nothing has |
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changed. Who would have thunk it? |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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