The critics are wrong: KDE 4 doesn't need a fork (ars technica) [LWN.net]

The critics are wrong: KDE 4 doesn't need a fork (ars technica)

Posted Jul 3, 2008 8:12 UTC (Thu) by renox (guest, #23785)
In reply to: The critics are wrong: KDE 4 doesn't need a fork (ars technica) by Sutoka
Parent article: The critics are wrong: KDE 4 doesn't need a fork (ars technica)

>They took his joke title as being serious and seemed not to read his post, or overlooked key
points like the plans for it in 4.2.

Well, maybe he shouldn't have made this joke then?

I've read from time to time his blog, and my view is that he is not a good communicator (in
his blog).
So it's not a big surprise that there are misunderstandings..

When you claim a 're-invention' of the GUI as Plasma people did, it's no wonder that some
users are very nervous about KDE4, and to avoid this you need to be 'crystal clear' in the
communication (and avoid the .0 naming mess).

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The critics are wrong: KDE 4 doesn't need a fork (ars technica)

Posted Jul 3, 2008 16:25 UTC (Thu) by Sutoka (guest, #43890) [Link]

>Well, maybe he shouldn't have made this joke then?
So now people, on their own *personal blog*, can't even make a joke where if you read ANY of
the entry you'll see it is an obvious joke (the title he bans the icons, the entry was
entirely about their much better method of handling icons for 4.1).

>I've read from time to time his blog, and my view is 
>that he is not a good communicator (in his blog).
>So it's not a big surprise that there are misunderstandings..
I read his blog extensively and never had any trouble with his communication skills. In fact,
I'd say they're very good if you can actually handle jokes (if you can't, you might wanna
avoid this thing called the Internet... I hear it's full of 'em).

>When you claim a 're-invention' of the GUI as Plasma 
>people did, it's no wonder that some users are very nervous 
>about KDE4, and to avoid this you need to be 'crystal clear' 
>in the communication (and avoid the .0 naming mess).
Plasma's long term goal is to re-invent the GUI, the short term goal is to provide a KDE 4
equivalent of KDesktop/Kicker thats far easier to maintain and extend.