https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341143
--- Comment #437 from michel <miz...@web.de> --- Lehmeyer speaks from my soul. He seems to have experience and knows exactly what has disappeared, as do many of us here. In addition, many of KDE/Plasma's setting options have silently disappeared. KDE/Plasma has long since ceased to be a desktop system that can individually be customised to a large extent. These setting options and their convenient presentation have simply and silently been eliminated. If you compare the system settings with those of the past you will be astonished at all the things that have disappeared. KDE's reputation is based on earlier times and not at all on these Plasma times. Concerning the ignorance of the developers or their unseemly answers I ask myself why the according to Wikipedia controlling groups "Community Working Group", "System Administration Working Group "User Working Group (if they still exist at all) are silently looking the other way and not answering the dissatisfied users in a way that can be expected in the year 2021. By this I expressly do not mean the way it has happened here so far or in the German-language forum "Linuxforen.de". This way of answering rather fits into the Middle Ages. It may be that one or the other has stopped there, the answers suggest that, but then he/they have to keep the mouth shut on the subject from the official side. It can't be the aim of those responsibles for KDE to alienate dissatisfied users by attempting to deal with them in a cheeky manner. There is also the possibility that the KDE/Plasma organisation itself has become so big that the left hand no longer wants to know what the right hand is doing and in what way. Such arrogance has never done an organisation any good - KDE/Plasma will be no exception. In the end, one will really have no choice but to change the GUI. When frustration and boredom dominate the work with the own computers, you have to do something. I have been a KDE user since the early beginning of the 2000s and have been through many a lean period, but as a user you were not left out to dry, unlike today. An alternative and actually worth a closer look seems to be Trinity, the continued KDE3.5. Just recently a new version was released, so they are still working on it, it's not a dead horse. However, the underpinnings are not yet clear to me, the information on their homepage is not yet meaningful enough. On the one hand, the "relapse" should remain bearable and on the other hand, it must be possible to switch without damage, which is not yet clear to me with my Tumbleweed. LXDE is comparatively puritanical, but it runs nicely and, above all, you get exhaustive, friendly and satisfactory answers from the developers to questions about the interface, even if some things are not (yet) as they could be. On my three "second" computers I am away from KDE/Plasma for some time and now use LXDE there. The developers seem to have very ambitious goals here too, but they are also responsive to the users. A big difference to KDE/Plasma. You feel you are in good hands with LXDE - also in contrast to KDE/Plasma... -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
