Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Sat 29th Aug 2009 01:21 UTC, submitted by John Mills
"With the Ubuntu Software Store, Canonical is hoping to unify all of the different package management needs into a single, unified interface. While this will not be achieved in Ubuntu 9.10, Canonical is hoping that all of the capabilities of the update-manager, Synaptic, the computer janitor application, gdebi, and other package management-related programs will be merged into Ubuntu Software Store. When this has occurred, it will be easier on the new end-user having to just deal with a single program to provide all of this functionality."
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But just maybe, if KDE get their act together and shepherd all preferences from the 300 tabs where they are currently scattered (and clarify the navigation around those tabs while they are at it); strip their programs from the mishmash of useless features; expunge the desktop of shamefully ridiculous meaningless terminology (Akonadi, Plasmoid, Nepomuk, Strigi...); and grok that beauty is a lot more than translucence and rounded corners, then the blinding light of your message will become obvious.
Dumb it down so there's no funtionality at all?. No thanks, for that we already have Gnome.
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2006-01-03
Oh, the high priest of usability has speaked! How odd that nobody has noticed your limitless sapience before and thus millions of dollars have been sensessly wasted into obviously inferior alternatives. If only they had asked you!
But just maybe, if KDE get their act together and shepherd all preferences from the 300 tabs where they are currently scattered (and clarify the navigation around those tabs while they are at it); strip their programs from the mishmash of useless features; expunge the desktop of shamefully ridiculous meaningless terminology (Akonadi, Plasmoid, Nepomuk, Strigi...); and grok that beauty is a lot more than translucence and rounded corners, then the blinding light of your message will become obvious.
I wish them well, but I have really tried to like KDE4 (4.0, 4.1, 4.2), and have found it to be so far a total usability disaster. And damn ugly, too, beyond the shallowest skin depth. We'll see if 4.3 is good enough, or otherwise wait for 4.4. Qt is fantastic, but although KDE4 is really trying, its time has not come just yet.