On Sunday 29 March 2009 09:00:21 Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Saturday 28 March 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > This is intentional. Users are generally focused on a task (in the > > description) and not a particular application (in the name). This is > > even more true of newer users. > > Why not give the choice? If I have to be told to do so because someone > thinks the majority wants it so, I have Windows or Mac OS X > Because they have limited time, same as everyone else, and can't do everything at once. > > It is still ready for the majority of end users > > No. At least that's not what I see when I read my mailing lists. > Of course. Why would satisfied customers tell the mailing lists that they are happy and have no problems? > > , and the KDE project is no > > longer supporting KDE 3, so they recommend you upgrade. > > They don't do it the right way (I mean instead of tempting us to make the > move we are being threatened) > No threat. Simple fact. As in 'I can't support two entirely separate builds of my application, and I choose to spend my time on the version that has a future'. Wouldn't you do the same? > > KDE 4.2 still does not appear to have all the features KDE 3.5 had, but > > it is a lot better than KDE 3.2. :) > > I can't remember 3.2 exactly, but I don't agree, at least when it comes to > the desktop (plasma). And, as far as I am concerned, as long as the desktop > is not working for me, KDE 4 is not working for me and remains on the test > partition > Your choice. There are distros that will have KDE3 for a good while yet, and I assume that they will do the necessary patching for security. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase
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