Linked by David Adams on Wed 2nd Jul 2008 16:11 UTC, submitted by elsewhere
"After the recent release KDE 4.1 beta 2 and openSUSE 11 with KDE 4.0.4, some critics have been especially vocal in expressing their displeasure with the KDE 4 user interface paradigms. The debate has grown increasingly caustic as critics and supporters engage in a war of words over the technology. The controversy has escalated to the point where some users are now advocating a fork in order to move forward the old KDE 3.5 UI paradigms. As an observer who has closely studied each new release of KDE 4, I'm convinced that the fork rhetoric is an absurdly unproductive direction for this debate."
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RE: Ars article doesn't explain the waste of screene estate
by superstoned on Thu 3rd Jul 2008 05:10
in reply to "Ars article doesn't explain the waste of screene estate"
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The underlying framework of KDE 4 may be better than KDE3, but regarding wasting of screen estate, KDE4 outdoes KDE3. I am primarily a KDE user and my main gripes with KDE3 are big icons and unnecessary big window borders. On 10"-13"screens how can they be accomadated. And KDE4, instead of reducing their size, makes them really really big. I tried KDE4 on OpenSUSE11.0 for a month and for me it worked with no problems. Only if they reduce the size of EVERYTHING on KDE4, I will switch to it.