Linked by Rahul Gaitonde on Thu 15th Jan 2004 06:40 UTC
Around 3 weeks ago, I downloaded the 2nd beta of KDE 3.2 from their FTP site. I've been using this release every day since then. The purpose of my writing this piece is not to highlight KDE 3.2's new features and applications - read the Changelog at KDE's site for that - but to give you a complete picture of how it measures up to its previous versions in terms of everyday use. Does it make me more productive? Is the command line more efficient yet? Or, even better, does it make me use the command line more effectively? Read on...
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"KDE has a powerful technology. But lacks focus in harnessing it. Take a look at the Konqueror tool bar for example. The fact that I can put whatever mini tools on the tool bar doesn't necessarily mean it is right to do that, or that I should do that. But in KDE land, anything goes."
Pleeeease!
You know, when you DO HAVE the underlying technological options, and you don't like some, getting rid of tem is *easy*: you just rewrite the GUI (that's easy in KDE).
If a company wants better context menus, better UI, they can always re-arrange things (and many do it, like Xandros).
On the other hand, when you DON'T have the technologies as in Gnome, then it is easy to be lean and easy on the UI: you simply don't have anything to show but basic stuff.
Hell, even their File Dialog took 6 bloody years to be fixed, and it still is not ready.