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An Early Look at GNOME 3.0 (Linux.com)

Posted Mar 2, 2011 18:46 UTC (Wed) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: An Early Look at GNOME 3.0 (Linux.com) by xxiao
Parent article: An Early Look at GNOME 3.0 (Linux.com)

worse, the KDE problem was a matter of misunderstanding about what was ready, not about what was intended.

the Gnome issue is over what's intended.

things not yet being ready will be fixed over time.

intent not matching what users want requires a change in the project goals.

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An Early Look at GNOME 3.0 (Linux.com)

Posted Mar 3, 2011 9:19 UTC (Thu) by renox (guest, #23785) [Link] (1 responses)

> worse, the KDE problem was a matter of misunderstanding about what was ready, not about what was intended.

That's not the whole truth: I read regularly complaints about the 'semantic desktop' (file indexing) tools because developers didn't provide an easy way to disable them (I think that this has changed in the last release, not sure).

And to take one data point, Carla Schroeder switched for KDE4 to XFCE on January 2010, so much more recently than KDE4.0, she is just one user though so this doesn't mean much..

An Early Look at GNOME 3.0 (Linux.com)

Posted Mar 3, 2011 18:02 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

I've been using KDE4 since about 4.0 or 4.1 and haven't had any problems disabling the file indexing tools on any of the versions.