Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 14th Jan 2008 14:41 UTC, submitted by superstoned
"I think it's really necessary to respond to some criticism seen on the reactions to the latest OSnews article. I won't go into the article itself, imho it's rather negative, but hey. From an user's perspective, it makes sense to only review 3 or 4 parts of KDE 4 and complain about them, and ignore all the other brilliant pieces of work in there, right? On to the responses, I found this reaction by dagw to be the most typical. Well. That's painful. So, is he right? Did we make the wrong decision? Let's look at it from a broader perspective for a while. Let's see it in the Grand Scheme of Things to Come."
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So it is with a bit of impish satisfaction that I note that KDE4, the incredible technological juggernaut which is supposedly going to wipe the rest of us out of existence soon, and which has now gone gold according to its dev team... is demonstrably a train wreck. :-)
Probably not worth it, but:
Hardly a train wreck. All of the apps that shipped saw significant improvements. The new apps were well recieved. Plasma is fast and stable(ish). The whole desktop environment is pretty much the same. The new icons and theme have been generally well received. (Quibbles aside.) Phonon works-- even though there is only one backend ATM. Solid is much the same. All of the new frameworks that shipped are much the same. Some 'stuff' has been pushed to 4.1, like KDE Pim and the new backend stuff there. OK.
Let's see-- There's a major new release and the issues are:
-With Kwin effects that are disabled by default. (That actually work fine with my r300 card and the open driver, sans some artifacting)
-The taskbar, more specifically that it requires a text editor to edit it. Check Aaron's most recent blog for info on that. Something about that being high on the TODO.
-Tales of too much use of 'Bold', which tended to be met with calls of, 'huh?'
-Gripes with the new application launcher, when a 'clasic' one is shipped, and more alternatives are in the pipe. (Which shows the power of Plasma vs. kicker.)
-Theme and icon quibbles.
-Stability gripes, that haven't hit most people. I suspect they haven't hit most people that actually have KDE 4.0.0 installed. (I've had the odd crash, but the desktop environment / xorg has been stable.)
Yeah, the end is near.
Compare that to KDE 2.0.0 (uggh.) or GNOME 2.0.0 (Can you say slow, crashy, and devoid of features.)... No, I'd put KDE 4.0.0 above either of those, but below KDE 3.0.0. KDE 3 was a straight port to Qt 3 mostly, probably because of KDE 2.0.0. That's why I suspect KDE 5.0.0 will largely follow the path of KDE 3.0.0, especially if all of these new technologies pan out. (Which it looks like they will for the most part)