On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:11:20 -0600 Billie Erin Walsh <bilwalsh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Drac, don't take any of this personal. I imagine he wont since personal isn't an adverb. > It's kind of a cumulative > assessment of what I, as a relative newbie, see on many lists and > threads. Hmm, go on, I'm intrigued. > Most of the people I see grousing the most are those that have been > around the longest. They have gotten "set" in their ways. I doubt that could be any more patronising without the use of "old-timer". > KDE4 is, > from my limited time with KDE3, a major change. Some things from > before work and many won't because of the fundamental change behind > them. Does it not occur to you that long term users of KDE3 were best placed to understand KDE3's strengths and weaknesses. They're also more likely to be full-time KDE users. > Some things from > before work and many won't because of the fundamental change behind > them. As I understand it it's the foundation that KDE stands on that > made the change completely necessary. Nonsense, very little was mandated by qt4. > I think the biggest problem is that no one wants change. No, many of us wanted change, there's huge scope for improvement in KDE3, we just wanted change that enhanced productivity. I doubt many people sat around thinking: this is far too fast and useful, I want wobbly windows, cubes and enough bloat and poor ergonomics to slow me down to a more leisurely pace. ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.