[NTLUG:Discuss] SuSE post 11.0 BAD NEWS - Need a new distro

[Leroy Tennison]

agoats at compuserve.com wrote:
> In the 9.10 version, they went to xmms2 which at least at the time, 
> did not have a gui that worked like xmms, in fact, it seemed to not 
> have anything that really worked from my experience. They also dropped 
> kaudiocreator or had not ported it as yet in favor of some other CD 
> ripper that was also too foreign for home. Keep in mind, my wife and 
> kids migrated from Windows 98/XP to Kubuntu 8.04 and if the experience 
> changes too much, they are easily lost. The KDE 4.0 format is not easy 
> to work with, the themes are not as intuitive, background image 
> management is changed, desktop icon line up is god know's where and 
> what's with this idiotic tool box menu that keeps appearing every time 
> you pass your mouse over the desktop icons?, the default menu seemed 
> to follow Windows Vista and extremely ridiculous to have to click 
> through each section to search for programs to use, it took me 2 days 
> to find how to go back to the "old" format,  and on and on.
>
> 8.04 had all of the programs that were familiar to everyone at home, 
> the look and feel was not so foreign and I had much less grief. 
> Likewise, the DFWUUG has a project going on with the American Indian 
> community and we are sticking to 8.04 for the same reason, familiarity 
> with the interface. KDE 4 is too foreign and the software that was 
> chosen in Kubuntu 9 likewise.
>
> Since I'm a Slacker, note that KDE 4.0 is the format in Slackware 13 
> and I'm not happy there,either. However, Patrick Volkderding did 
> include the widgets that let you line up the desktop icons. which was 
> totally missing in Kubuntu.
>
> Alvin
>
> Robert Citek wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:21 PM, agoats at compuserve.com
>> <agoats at compuserve.com> wrote:
>>  
>>> I'm alive and running with Kubuntu 8.04. Don't plan on an immediate 
>>> upgrade
>>> to Kubuntu as I don't care much for the KDE 4.0 eye candy, lack of
>>> immediately usable icon alignment on the desktop, dropping xmms and
>>> kaudiocreator, etc.
>>>     
>>
>> Dunno about the KDE usability, but xmms and kaudiocreator are there:
>>
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/xmms2
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/kaudiocreator
>>
>> Or did you mean something else by "dropping"?
>>
>> Regards,
>> - Robert
>>
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Is anybody over in KDE land listening (or care)?  I thought maybe I was 
a dinosaur for not liking the new in-your-face, I see I'm not alone.  I 
sure hope OpenOffice doesn't get Microsoft religion and decide to 
wholesale overhaul their UI ala Office 2007.