[mdlug] KDE 4

[Aaron Kulkis]

Jim Broughton wrote:
> I just recently installed Slackware 13.1 and have my second look
> at the KDE 4 series desktop. I am appalled at what I see.
> After 3 years thats all they have to show. I think that they should have
> gone with a dual track, refining 3.5 while putting 4 into usable shape. 
> While
> KDE 4  looks pretty it is harder to configure than the older 3.5 series
> I was used to under Slack 12.2. It lacks a lot the programs that
> were available under 3.5. The default menu system just plain sucks.
> I guess their objective was to dumb it down a bit for the normal user 
> but at the
> same time the fallout has been that a power user is left with a system that
> just plain is not fun to use or configure.
> I have kept in mind that Slackware does a minimal amount of
> configuration work on the desktop software so that what you see is pretty
> much what the KDE team released. I was so annoyed by it I downgraded
> (upgraded?) my Laptop to the XFCE desktop. I will probably have to
> compile/build KDE 3.5 for it.  Anyone else here using KDE 4 for
> your desktop? Opinions?

project leader Aaron Segio is a pathological liar, and I will never trust
ANYTHING associated with this man.

For instance, the KDE team propaganda, lead by Segio, state
that KDE4 was a complete rewrite from the bottom up -- this
being the excuse for normal desktop interactions which we have
all come to know and love in KDE 3.5..

...and yet segio (too cool for capital letters) stated on his
blog words to the effect of "finally, after a lot of work, I've
ripped all the desktop icons code out of KDE4" 

What code is there to "rip out" if their story that they
were "building from the ground up" were true, and they were
not re-using KDE 3.5 code.

Additionally, many of the photos that the man PUTS ON HIS
OWN website indicate a total jack*** with a completely
flippant attitude.

KDE is becoming the NetBSD of the Linux world. :-(