On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 06:48:40AM +0100, Michael wrote: > > > Hi peops, > > > […] > > > 3.) Widgets, plasmoids, generel KDE features: Yeah well, really nice > > > design (mostly), but from a usability standpoint? Often a mess. > > > > Plasma is a constant source of annoyance for me. I never really > > understood the need for a second UI style next to the “normal” one. > > The many animations that can’t be switched off and low contrasts are > > causes of grievance for me. There are layout bugs [...], redrawing > > bugs [...], UI bugs [...] and feature regressions [...]. > > I guess one has to be fair here. I guess KDE4 is designed to be > feature-rich, beautiful, with many bells and whistles. One could argue, > it is not designed to be stripped down to a bare minimum.
Well, different to other “modern” desktops, which only seem to offer the lower end, KDE can be both simplistic and over-the-top full of stuff. > I may be wrong, but I see it like a person walking in a car-salon, he > wants to buy some means of transportation. No, he wants to buy a car. And usually already made up his mind about specifics, b/c salons commonly have only one or two brands. Sorry, car comarisons are common in IT discussion, but this one’s not very applicable. ;-) > As he is offered some cars, he complains [...]. Don't go to a > car-salon, if you really want a motorcycle or even a bike. What exactly is your KDE analogy? Don’t use KDE if you want a window manager? > Btw. what about that netbook-design? Isn't that something specifically > designed for lower-end hardware? To me, it’s the same plasma, just with a specific default widget setup. I never used it because (you might guess) it has too many animations and requires too much clicking. I prefer the classic K-Menu. > > [...] > > I suppose right now the migration to 5.0 takes lots of developer > > resources, so I imagine fixing bugs in “obsolete” 4 gets even less > > attention. I attempted fixing bugs before (and sent a patch in two > > instances), but it requires lots of work to get into the code, > > especially in bigger projects like Amarok or KMail. > > Oh, KDE4 is more or less in "maintenance-mode"? That was more of a sarcastic nudge at how fast KDE 3 was dropped in favour of the yet unusable 4.0. And I believe I read somewhere that 4.11 was to be the last 4.x release. Anyhoo, I remained with KDE 3 for a long time, then used both in parallel and only around 4.3 or even 4.4 I made the final switch (Gentoo provided for the parallel installation of both for a long time). -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook service. There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who are good with words and those who are... erm... thingy...
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