On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 04:40:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 16:00 on Thursday 12 May 2011, Indi did opine > thusly: > > > I had 8 users on kde before 3 was deprecated in 2009. > > Now I have zero. It was a harrowing time, switching > > everyone to gnome, finding that is not so hot, finally > > putting them on xfce. If xfce gets a wild hair and changes > > my plan is to dumb down the fluxbox or openbox > > configs I have for my own use, add some scripting and call > > it a day. > > So why didn't you just leave the users on KDE3? >
For the same reason I didn't leave them on windows 98 se. Yes, it technically "still works" but is far less useful than it was when it was enthusiastically supported by its creators and still considered one of two default choices for DE duty. I'm sorry if this discussion has offended you, Alan. That was certainly not my intent. However, admins with stories like mine are not at all uncommon, and the bottom line is that kde4 lost a lot of users to other DEs. The kde devs clearly bit off more than could chew, but obviously that's water under the bridge now. But to deny it or make excuses now does no service to anyone. "Oops, better not do that again", is what we all hope they learned. We all make mistakes, just don't make the same ones repeatedly! :) -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫
