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

[Leroy Tennison]

Gilbert Morrow wrote:
> 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:
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> Gilbert Morrow wrote:
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>> To me KDE 4 was something that was needed KDE 3 was dated and began to
>> r...
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> (Read Alvin's later post before posting this one)
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> 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).
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> 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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Well, now I'm curious as to what you would prefer as an alternative.  
Apple had/has (haven't looked at OSX) a different look and feel, OS/2 
did to some degree, CDE is somewhat different.  What specific things 
bother you?