I ve to say, and I might get some criticism for this but I think that lately the KDE team version by version ve been taking large steps in the wrong direction. They ve been doing a good job at making a Desktop Environment that feels almost invisible, but the general design of the Environment itself seems a little too much like a Vista (Widgets) and Mac (Theme) clone and this isn´t what Linux was originally designed to be, a clone.
And I think, KDE 4 is the fact that they are going to break, the easy usability and user friendly design of the Linux operating system. KDE is now starting to demand more from the computer hardware in order to run, for example KDE 4.2 would not run on a computer with an 800MHz processor, less than 64MB of video, and 128MB of memory, where GNOME easily would. And the KDE has always made programs look more integrated with the Desktop Environment than as separate programs, and this kind of behaviour is more confusing and takes away more from the usability than it adds. Additionally, the KDE team have designed their own replacements for programs, so that they integrate better, nice, but when there is something already out there, it would probably be better, particularly for compatibility reasons, to use it instead, and just modify, add and remove features. I, myself a big fan of KDE 4. But I am really not liking this ¨cloning thing¨, any more. -- Angel GPG key: 0x34001F46 Bangladesh Linux Users Alliance Fedora Ambassador Bangladesh http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Angel Fedora -- Freedom² and rapid innovation -- Ubuntu Bangladesh mailing list ubuntu-bd@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd
