Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 1st Feb 2008 22:02 UTC
Another interview with a KDE developer - this time Sebastian Kuegler takes the stage. "So sure, 4.0.0 is not as polished as anyone (especially ourselves) would have wanted it to be. It certainly is a usable desktop, if not up to all the goodness of 3.5.8 (which is what people seem to be used to, which shows that we do deliver quality work). We knew from the beginning that the development cycle leading up to a stable KDE 4 release would be painful. The fact that the definition of stable varies widely within our userbase and the expectations of everyone doesn't make it any easier." Additionally, the much-criticised KDE 4 panel can now be, among other things, resized.
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I'd rather see it become quickly as good as 3.5.x and then quickly surpassing it.
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Doing the infrastructural change that they did is not easy, everybody knows that and yes, the 4.0 release... well.. everybody was expecting it to be huge. Had to do with being "Four dot Zero", the "New and Improved"... that kind of X factor associated with a whole number release of any piece of software that automagically raises everybody's expectations. They did raise the bar to much early in the release cycle, however, and that ended up working against them cause it got to much people excited about the upcoming release.
I for one still welcome our new desktop overlords. Sure the release wasn't up to what most people where expecting, but then again most people never used Gnome 1.4... So they wouldn't know about pain.
I think the KDE team should just take a deep breath and carry on and don't let themselves be put down by their critics. They clearly have a vision and they are pursuing it (which is something that OSS lacks, in general: a vision), and even if they have just barely left the starting point it doesn't mean the race is lost because they're probably racing down the proper track.
And before anybody criticize KDE 4, remenber Gnome 2... Talk about lack of features... Talk about bad receptions and missed expectations. If you are new here, or just need me to refresh tou memory, take a look at this:
http://osnews.com/story/1280/A_Users_First_Look_at_GNOME_2.0
By Eugenia, circa 2002.
From TFA:
I usually start my reviews with the positive points of a product and then continue with whatever I found as 'bad'. In this case, I just can't hide my dissapointment about the new version of Gnome. As a user, I expected more, and I want more.
History repeating. So there. Gnome 2.X series eventually went on to become the most popular DE available on Linux, with many many users, and I'm one of them. So give the KDE folks some time and cut them some slack. Let the 4.X series be to KDE as good as Gnome 2.X turned out to be.