Indi wrote:
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! :)
+1
Dale
:-) :-)
