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

[Leroy Tennison]

Gilbert Morrow wrote:
> To me KDE 4 was something that was needed KDE 3 was dated and began to
> resemble Windows to closely .
> Of course KDE 4.4.1 , which is the latest , it still has some Windows
> aspects.
> If I am top posting, I am on my phone and don't have a option I can see to
> change that.
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> Posted with a Droid . Droid !
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> On Apr 2, 2010 9:47 AM, "Greg Edwards" <greg at nas-inet.com> wrote:
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> Leroy Tennison wrote:
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>> agoats at compuserve.com wrote:
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>>> changes too much, they are easily lost. The KDE 4.0 format is not easy to
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> work with, the themes a...
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>>> Alvin
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>>> Robert Citek wrote:
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>>>>> to Kubuntu as I don't care much for the KDE 4.0 eye candy, lack of
>>>>> immediately usable ic...
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>>>> Regards,
>>>> - Robert
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>> Is anybody over in KDE land listening (or care)?  I thought maybe I was a
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> dinosaur for not likin...
> Mandriva 2010.0 uses KDE 4.3.  4.3 fixed allot of the complaints and
> restored some features lost from 3.2.  For the most part I'm happy with 4.3,
> I really cringed whenever I used 4.0.
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> Greg E
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(Read Alvin's later post before posting this one)

That's something where I and apparently a lot of other people disagree.  
"dated" doesn't bother me.  I don't mind change as long as it doesn't 
take away features and produces noticeable improvement.  I have more 
limited experience with KDE 4.? (whatever came with SuSE 11.2) because 
SuSE 11.2 had video problems which drove me away.  However, it sounds 
like significant functionality was lost.  Although far from critical, I 
did notice some steps backward myself: Kbounce became so difficult it 
was no longer fun, kedit disappeared which would have been OK if they 
had put the "clean spaces" functionality it had somewhere in the current 
software.  Dolphin (or whatever the file manager was that replaced 
konqueror) just seamed strange.  Maneuvering and drag-and-drop were just 
odd to me.  It had a nice feature I've seen elsewhere where you could 
click a path component and move directly to that directory but this 
wasn't enough to overcome the other oddness.

To me Microsoft is the lead offender in this arena: wholesale overhaul 
the user interface with every new Windows version to give the appearance 
of progress while not providing much in substantive improvements, 
particularly functionality (I don't consider DRM to be functionality).  
What I fear is that KDE is going to follow Microsoft's lead in this 
area.  Maybe what is needed is for KDE to explain the rationale for the 
change in UI (if Microdsoft ever did this I'm not aware of it).


Now I am curious, in what ways did KDE 3.x resemble Windows too 
closely?  In other words, what are the specific things about the Windows 
GUI which bother you and you didn't like seeing showing up in KDE?