Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 29th May 2008 17:04 UTC
Tuesday, we reported that the KDE project had released the first beta of KDE 4.1, the release that is supposed to be ready to replace KDE3 on normal users' desktops. The information and marketing speak in the press release sure was promising, so Ars decided to take the KDE 4.1 beta out for a spin.
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RE[5]: more KDE 4.1 Beta1 screenshots
by ephracis on Fri 30th May 2008 10:56
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Better be careful. If you slaughter on KDE too much you will be categorized as a hater and elitist.
Then of course people will proclaim this is all for free when it's all for building a resume, job hunting and creating career paths while corporations leverage and use these programmers to get work done.
What is clear to me is that the Keith Ohlfs of the world are few and far between. They understand minimalism and separation of concerns you can't explain from a curriculum or certificate programs.
It's an eye for balance that is desperately being ignored in KDE, GNOME, OS X and Windows.
Keith should have said f*** it and taken the lead GUI job back at Apple when us NeXT folks merged. I guess he thought Microsoft would continue to be a huge stock leader--his main reason was oh so many stock options at the time unvested.
He'd be worth more at Apple and we wouldn't have such aborrations across the industry.
UI design is becoming obese, redundant and clearly obsessed with making a collection of actions for every possible keyboard equivalent visible in the Mouse driven UIs.