[mdlug] KDE 4

[Aaron Kulkis]

Raymond McLaughlin wrote:
> Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>> Michael Mikowski wrote:
>>> I don't think they are dumbing it down, just they need time to put back features.  This is normal software development, and happened each time KDE has switched versions, although this certainly was the biggest pull-back.  Some features will never come back due to a fundamental redesign.  For example, instead of a separate task bar (as previously mentioned), now one can add as many panels as desired put anything in them.  Yes this is somewhat painful to adjust to, but is a much more elegant and flexible /once/ you figure it out.
>>>
>> They've said that KDE4 was built from scratch, not an updating of the KDE 3
>> code...but Seigo's blog belies that claim, when he bragged that he
>> REMOVED the ability to put icons on the desktop.
> 
> Can you provide a link to back this up? I could Google it, but you can
> probably find it faster than I can, and you *are* making the assertion.

I didn't save a link....lets see what I can find....




Here's an example:
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/05/no-more-desktop-icons-in-41.html

	Thursday, May 22, 2008
	no more desktop icons in 4.1
	(Now that I have your attention with that title ... ;)

	I just committed a change to the default desktop containment
	that removes desktop icon support. Yes, it has finally
	happened ... no more splattering icons from the "desktop"
	folder across the screen. Buh-bye.


So no, this wasn't a re-write from scratch...he took WORKING
CODE AND S***-canned it.

REMOVING functionality which some users' workflow depends on
is progress, how, exactly?


And so why was the functionality of creating desktop icons originally
removed? Because Seigo doesn't like them...and so, apparently, if he
doesn't like them, nobody else should be able to use them, either.

http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2005/09/anatomy-of-nasty-bug.html
Thursday, September 22, 2005

	anatomy of a nasty bug
	i came across an interesting a month or two ago: if you
	run with desktop icons turned off in kde (which i do
	because i have zero use for them)



Note the photograph he chose to use to present himself to the world...
I don't know exactly WHAT he thinks it's supposed to indicate, but what
it actually indicates is not complementary -- starting with lack of
judgement, and "I think I'm too cool for capital letters"...and
goes downhill from there.


The guy is a Grade A (for lack of a more fitting term) a**-clown,
and shouldn't be in charge of anything more important the cleaning
cages at the zoo.