Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 21st Jan 2008 18:22 UTC
Ars reviews KDE 4.0.0: "KDE 4.0 was officially released last week after extensive development. The long-awaited 4.0 release ushers in a new era for the popular open-source desktop environment and adds many intriguing new features and technologies. Unfortunately, the release comes with almost as many new bugs as it does features, and there is much work to be done before it sparkles like the 3.5.x series." They were also at the KDE 4.0 release event.
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I'm already kicking myself for hitting reply...
Site one. The worst I did was call into question your judgement and portray your public efforts in a negative light. You do of course see the hypocrisy in complaining about that don't you?
Its more than just language specifics, though of course understanding those is important. Its about introducing a large scale rewrite of very large, publicly developed project to all of the downstream people who need access to it in a stable way. The least numerous but noisiest of these people being the 'DE enthusiasts'.
And unfortunately yes, the specifics of development of this type of project are important and if you don't know enough about them then maybe you should restrain from commenting so voluminously and so vehemntly, especially in the face of repeated correction.
Oh heavens, stuck with not being able to change the panel size? How long was it from 2.0 until GNOME could right click on a menu and edit it? Where were the drivers in Vista? In any software project of this scale you will never get immediate feature parity with such a mature, feature complete code base as kde3.5. This is a testament to the progress made in 3.5 not a slight against 4.
For someone so free with the vitriol when they're dishing it out to others you get remarkably thin skin when a little of it comes back your way.
I'm sorry that that was all you managed to pick up and that it makes no sense to you. Maybe someone else can do a better job of walking you through it, but I honestly think this is a 'lead a horse to water but can't make him drink' case.
again, call into question the professional pride of others, cast dispersions on their character and work. Ok to dish it out but quick to complain when you receive it.
You are more than welcome to feel any way you like about it, but in light of what has been explained repeatedly about who the .0's intended audience is, when you come out in public, ignore what has been said numerous time and then continuously cast dispersions about the quality of something you don't seem well suited to judge, a perception that is hard not to make reading your posts, then don't be surprised to be called on it.
For it's intended audience, 4.0 is wonderful. Its a delight to develop on and was delivered not a moment to soon. Sorry you don't feel that way, but don't expect a warm reception when you go out trying to rain on others parades.