Star The Critics are Wrong: KDE 4 Doesn't Need a Fork
Linked by David Adams on Wed 2nd Jul 2008 16:11 UTC, submitted by elsewhere
KDE "After the recent release KDE 4.1 beta 2 and openSUSE 11 with KDE 4.0.4, some critics have been especially vocal in expressing their displeasure with the KDE 4 user interface paradigms. The debate has grown increasingly caustic as critics and supporters engage in a war of words over the technology. The controversy has escalated to the point where some users are now advocating a fork in order to move forward the old KDE 3.5 UI paradigms. As an observer who has closely studied each new release of KDE 4, I'm convinced that the fork rhetoric is an absurdly unproductive direction for this debate."
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RE: Wait a minute!
by FunkyELF on Wed 2nd Jul 2008 18:25 UTC in reply to "Wait a minute!"
FunkyELF
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2006-07-26

Yeah! Why not what for a while until the software has matured before starting to make forks and whatnot?


How many months did it take XGL to be forked into Beryl? Of course they wound up merging or un-forking later on...it wound up working out nicely.

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