Mena-Quintero: A Friday rant on Gnome 3, journalists, and power users

If we find that an option in the default setup is not warranted for a certain feature, we propose to use a replacement component. Everything in Plasma is a replacable component, so it was built with the option to change things fundamentally.

KDE's mention in iguru's blog seems more like a cover-your-ass notice, to prevent his comment section from filling up with people, rightfully, suggesting to have a look at KDE Plasma. Not everything is perfect there, but the behavior he complains about (putting branding before users, advocating "The One True Way" is *not* common in Plasma, and rarely seen overall in KDE.

I think it's unfair to draw parallels between these complaints to the GNOME camp. KDE did have a rough patch to go through, but that wasn't so much by design, it was a result of a necessary architectural change. We've gotten over it, we have a design that allows you to change pretty much everything to your liking, but it took as some time to get there. This transition has been painful to users, but it's not an attitude thing.