https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341143

--- Comment #449 from michel <miz...@web.de> ---
The aforementioned Nate Graham recently reported on pointieststick.com/ with a
silly grin that in Plasma 5.23 you can now also change the colors in menus
independently of the selected color scheme. He probably overlooked the fact
that he revived a feature from KDE3... If you look at the actual public
statements of allegedly responsible people (Lydia Pintscher, Ben Cooksley, Nate
Graham...), you will be horrified, if you compare what is said there with
reality... They are a bit like incompetent politicians: they like to bask in
the light of the cameras, but quickly dive when they have to make concrete
statements, as a request I made to a board member showed. I also don't use the
pompous name "Plasma" for this software, which is further slimmed down from
version to version, but only KDE5, actually "KDE4 light" would be more
appropriate...

What else can be written? The screwing of us users has reached a new, never
thought possible dimension. My personal consequences of this catastrophe were
as follows: Of my 5 computers in my house, 3 are now running Windows10, only
one is still running Tumbleweed and KDE and one is still running OpenSuSE15.2
and LXDE. But these two will not be able to hold on for long. LXDE works well,
the communication with the developers is excellent, but the performance is not
optimal and KDE5 is digging its own grave, as you can see here. It cannot and
must not be, that a new software version offers from time to time less
possibilities than before. This only exists here with KDE5. Also only here with
KDE5 there is the phenomenon that the hints and suggestions of many users to a
topic are hushed up and completely ignored. This way goes in the wrong
direction. Such a thing does not even exist with Windows. 

I already stopped my donations to KDE in 2015 with a message, which probably
didn't really interest anyone due to the lack of a response - at a time, it was
clear that the feature set of KDE5 was indiscussable compared with 4.14. We
went through the same thing when we switched to KDE 3 and 4, but there, efforts
were made to restore the performance range of the respective previous version,
which also succeeded quickly and helped the two KDE versions to their very good
reputation. Money never was a reason for me for using Linus, as i shurely paid
much more on donations as i would have had to spend for Windows-Licences and
the required Software.

It is a pity which way KDE goes. They are not only ruining their own software,
but also a large part of Linux for desktop installations. Hardly such a
computer will run without GUI and only the fewest users will want to
permanently spoon the presented water soup KDE5. I am one of them. After 20
years with Linux, I see the "Linux adventure" as a failure for me, a failure
due to incompetent developers and a completely outdated communication and
information of the developers towards the users.

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