On Sunday 25 January 2009 21:26:31 Timothy Murphy wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > Linus has the strange idea that the desktop he chooses actually matters. > > It > > doesn't. He made his own choice, and for his own reasons. Frankly, I > > don't care. > > I do. > I usually agree with Anne, but in this case > I hope Linus changing to Gnome will teach Fedora/KDE a lesson. > It did make me think of trying Gnome, > but I'm probably too lazy and set in my ways for that. > > I still find the KDE-3/4 changeover completely baffling. > It is as though the KDE-3 team had been lost in an earthquake > with all their archives, > and a new team developing KDE-4 had to work > from their recollection of how KDE-3 functioned. > It's only when you've used 4 for a while that you realise just how many things in 3.x were only half-functional. When I first tried 4.0 I thought I'd never live with it. Now there are so many things about it that I love and use constantly that I now find it quite frustrating to work with a 3.x machine. You can't get away from the fact that it is very different, and there is a learning curve, but I'm convinced that it is will worth it. Anne -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090125/6fa7243b/attachment.bin
