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The critics are right

The critics are right

Posted Jul 3, 2008 4:26 UTC (Thu) by pynm0001 (guest, #18379)
In reply to: The critics are right by mgb
Parent article: The critics are wrong: KDE 4 doesn't need a fork (ars technica)

> KDE 4 is seriously dumbed down by design. Vista already showed that
> dumbing down is not overall a successful strategy, even if a small number
> of people prefer it.

Patches are always accepted if you'd like to port over a 3.5 feature you can't live without.
Or you could just accuse us of trying to "dumb down" the desktop, that's cool too I guess...

> KDE 4 attempted to dumb down the file manager with Dolphin.

That's weird, Konqueror still works for me, hmm.

> KDE 4's new start menu is an insane joke.

Hey look, another comment which KDE developers can do nothing to fix.  How should I submit
this to bugs.kde.org?

Problem: "kickoff menu is an insane joke."

How to reproduce: "...?"

Expected behavior: "The jokes should be funny, not insane."

I mean wtf?

The *real* insane joke was that Alt-F1 didn't work in KDE 4.0.0.  Honestly I thought kickoff
was one of the much better features about KDE 4.  Luckily the old-style menu is still
available.

> KDE 4's panel is not yet able to do 10% of what Kicker has been doing
> for me in KDE 3.5.

Any way of mentioning what specifically is in that set of things kicker does that Plasma does
not?  Or is this just continuing a trend?


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