Re: [opensuse] Am I the only one?

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Per Inge Oestmoen
<pioe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I, too, encourage people to write down lists of features that are either
missing or that are wanted as new ones. This is not only the
constructive approach, but the only possible one if improvement is the
aim. I have stated at least once in this discussion that it is only for
us who use these programs and functions to tell the developers about
what is needed and wanted.

This has been done and done and done and done and done again. To be
blunt, I don't have the time to continue to do this. KDE4 has
laudable goals, but until I see a compelling reason to use it, I
won't. I probably won't even install 11.1 other than for testing
considering how badly some people have experienced it.

If you want to go through all the features of KDE3 and compare them to
KDE4 and then create a site that we can vote on the features that are
missing, I will be sure to add my input. Till then, I will continue
to make use of KDE3, a solid, stable, feature rich system and not a
bug ridden, featrure incomplete version that is suppsoed to replace
it.

My purpose behind my discussing this has been to draw attention to the
need to maintain functionality in the new KDE version. I know of no
other way to draw attention to something than to point out the faults
and to suggest that they be remedied.

And we have repeatedly tried to do this. I'm not trying to bash you,
but anytime a discussion comes up with ANY kind of comparision of KDE3
vs KDE4 it turns into a mess with name calling and other useless
comments about how KDE4 is so great and that we should stop bitching
and just use it.

I'm not a dev, so I can't comment on whether a real rewrite was
absolutely neccessary. But, like I always point out, compelling
reason. Why do I run Linux on my Macs? Because MacOS doesn't give me
any compelling reasons to use it and it costs $$$. $129 every 2 years
is too much.

I use openSUSE and Linux because it allows me to use my computers the
way I want. I have some almost new hardware and some really old
stuff. I'm typing this on a Thinkpad laptop with a P3/1Ghz and 256mB
RAM while I have 4 ssh sessions into my server running 2 movie
re-encodes and doing file maintenance in the other 2. I've got 2
directories on my server mounted on this and 1 directory on this
laptop mounted on the server to copy files with. If I was using MacOS
or Windows I'd barely be able to do anything. Not so with
KDE3/openSUSE 11.0. However, it doesn't look like KDE4/openSUSE 11.1
shows any compelling reason to update as it is now, so I will continue
to use what works. 11.0 was such a worthwhile upgrade over 10.3 in so
many ways. 11.1 doesn't look like it has many compelling reasons for
an upgrade so far. And, as an almost 10 year supported of SuSE, I
hate to say that. 10.1 was an unmitigated dissaster. I hope 11.1
isn't anywhere near as bad, but it's showing it's problems very early.

I had 11.0 on my machines before it was even released. I haven't even
bothered to try 11.1 on any of my machines other than a quick install
of a KDE4 livecd.
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