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Apparently, though unproven, at 16:38 on Thursday 12 May 2011, Dale did opine |
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thusly: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > On Thu, 12 May 2011 08:46:32 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> >> So, you think most of the KDE users were happy to see support for KDE3 |
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> >> being dropped, especially considering KDE4 was much less than stable? |
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> >> For me and a lot of others, it was worthless at first. It was good eye |
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> >> candy but not functional even for the little I do. |
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> > I didn't switch until 4.3 or 4.4, KDE 3.5 worked fine for me up until |
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> > then. It probably still works just as well now as part of the Trinity |
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> > project. |
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> Which supports my point. Maintain KDE3 until KDE4 is stable and |
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> usable. If it is still working, which I think it is tho some fixes have |
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> had to be made, then why couldn't KDE support KDE3 just a little while |
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> longer. |
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So here's two killer questions for you: |
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1. How much money did you pay towards KDE dev salaries overall? |
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2. How many times does your name appear in KDE Changelogs? |
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While the answer to both is "zero" you do not get to complain. |
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Here's another killer: |
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Q. What's the difference between KDE devs and Dale? |
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A: KDE devs launched an editor and typed code. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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