Il 24/11/2015 16:11, Reindl Harald ha scritto:
why can the kde-developers not just stop to ruin working things all
the time?
Because
<rant>
they fail to grasp that the computer Desktop was originally intended as
a metaphor for the top of the desk you're sitting at. That is an empty
workspace, which each user populates according its needs and its taste,
with the documents he needs at the moment, and the applications he uses
more frequently.
The best way to implement it is just a folder, as it used to be in the
good old times. Anything more elaborated is a source of instability and
bugs, without serving any useful purpose for the vast majority of users.
For stable, consistent and useful usage, nothing should be "integrated"
into the desktop, because each user has different needs and they may
change day by day. If you try to integrate everything you build up a
monster, if you integrate just something, chances are good that what you
deem useful is useless for everyone else.
But they conceived that foolish thing that is the Plasma environment,
which is nothing but a bloated systray taking all the screen, populated
by Plasmoids, which are nothing but bloated (and usually buggy) applets,
which take a lot of space, instead of being a few small Icons on the
system tray.
They try to index your files when you don't need it, and in this way
they slow down your workflow, in order to keep track of a few passwords,
in place of a simple encrypted list they use a mysql database, which
subtracts resources to your useful activities, and gets into the way if
you're using mysql for some other useful purpose, etc. etc.
Moreover they failed from the beginning to follow sound design rules.
They're rightfully using the Qt widgetset which is good, and provides
the pleasant look which is the reason to select KDE, but they failed to
take into account that Qt evolves.
The only reasonable way to deal with an evolving widgetset is to provide
an abstraction layer, isolating the Desktop applications from the WS.
The abstraction layer provides a number of API's related to the
functions required by the desktop applications, and implements them in
the current Qt context. That way changing from let's say Qt4 to Qt5 is
just a matter of rewriting the abstraction layer, leaving all the
applications unchanged, and keeping all the previous features. Then,
with time, new features can be added to take advantage of what the new
Qt provides.
But they didn't do it that way. It would appear that they always restart
from scratch.
KDE1 already had all that's required from a desktop. But it took until
KDE 2.3 to get the same features. Then it took until KDE 3.5 to get all
the features of KDE 1.
I'm currently using KDE 4.3.4 (CentOs 6), and I still find it a
significant regression with respect to KDE 3.5.
The newer versions I've tested seemed to have added new bugs instead of
eliminating the old ones.
It would be a pity to leave KDE forever, but if the kde developers
continue on their way, I'm afraid that I'll be forced to take a
different road.
</rant>
Giuliano
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