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

[Gilbert Morrow]

http://www.google.com/m?gl=us&source=android-browser-key&client=ms-android-verizon&hl=en&aq=f&oq=&aqi=-k0d0t0&fkt=4160&fsdt=25065&q=kde+resembles+windows
Googled this seems others agree .
Name a gesture in windows, then try it in KDE , chances are it is there.

Posted with a Droid . Droid !

On Apr 3, 2010 1:03 AM, "Leroy Tennison" <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net> wrote:

Gilbert Morrow wrote:
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> To me KDE 4 was something that was needed KDE 3 was dated and began to
> r...
(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?



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