KDE 4.0.0 has been released on January 11th, after a number of delays; the months preceding the release, the KDE developers tried very hard to downplay expectations. KDE 4.0.0 was just the first release in the KDE 4 series, and such, should not be seen as the best possible representation of the KDE 4.0.0 vision. So, when I installed KDE 4.0.0 on my Ubuntu Gutsy installation last Friday, I knew what to expect: KDE 4 Developer Release 1 (yes, I am a BeOS guy - how did you know?). Read on for a few quick first impressions.
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Member since:2006-02-15
Well no, they're not. Features are missing in KDE 4.0, but they're missing because the devs didn't have time to implement everything, not because they didn't want to (some exceptions apply as with anything).
Excuse me, have you even bothered to read my comments? http://www.osnews.com/permalink?295735 <- there I clearly say that I wasn't referring to KDE4.0 because I know it's very much a work-in-progress and will get better in future releases.. -.- And YES, they ARE indeed planning to simplify the UI and remove unnecessary functionality! Just go ask the devs for fsck sake if you think I'm lying, they'll just confirm what I am saying as true.. >_>
But by not having some features/options, you are losing a certain percentage of users.
And too much functionality creates clutter which also means losing a certain percentage of users. Which the KDE devs are trying to lessen by simplifying the UI..
Member since:2005-09-21
Excuse me, have you even bothered to read my comments?
Yep.
Right... So the devs spent a whole lot of time porting features to Qt4 and the new libs just so they could remove them in the future? Bull. If you have the chance to revamp everything, you're not going to drag along features you know to be unneccessary.
Sure, some KDE3 features/options won't show up in KDE 4, but don't expect much that is currently there to be removed.
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2005-09-21
Well no, they're not. Features are missing in KDE 4.0, but they're missing because the devs didn't have time to implement everything, not because they didn't want to (some exceptions apply as with anything).
Not necessarily. A lot can be done to reorganize an interface to make it more usable without losing features. Just look at Office 2007.
Of course, some features will be removed that are deemed very obscure or hard to implement. But overall, there is no plan to remove the many features from KWin or other parts of KDE.
Because it works great for many people. I never said it didn't. But by not having some features/options, you are losing a certain percentage of users.
And way more are using Windows than any Unix desktop.