[kde-doc-english] (no subject)

[Luiz Fernando Ranghetti]

2012/8/23 Joseph Thames <beartham at gmail.com>:
> Why does this KDE4 version of Konsole not have search and history save
> capabilities, like the KDE 3.5 version did? I have all these desktop Icons
> in KDE3.5 that invoke, size, and color Konsole windows when invoked by
> Icons. Am I going to have to rebuild them using Gnome Terminal?
>
> Why in KDE4 can I not create desktop icon launchers when logged in as root?
> I could do that in KDE 3.5, enabling me to configure the desktop of my other
> user accounts.
>
> Why is there no window-list applet in KDE4, like in KDE 3.5? You have a lot
> of cute useless applets that nobody needs or wants, and the vital one for
> many-desktop users in missing.
>
> I don't understand why you guys think KDE4 is better than KDE 3.5, and you
> can foist it on a user community with no backward compatibility? Its about
> functionality not cosmetics. You have foisted all this pretty plasma garbage
> on us but your functionality is marching backwards.
>
> I have been using KDE for 15 years, on Suse, Fedora, Ubuntu, and Centos. I
> first ran into KDE4 on Kubuntu 9.04, and found it bleeding-edge junk. So I
> went to Centos 5.5 which came with KDE 3.5. Now I just opened a new VPS with
> Centos 6.2, and you got me with your KDE4 junk again. Three years later and
> still no  windows-list applet.
>
> Is there any wonder that there are over 200 balkanized strains of Linux?
> Here is the reason! All you creatively-addicted kids don't know when to stop
> changing things because you don't have to live with the consequences.
> Haven't you ever heard the adage: If it ain't broke don't fix it? You should
> take the lesson of Emacs, which I started using in 1986. Now it has become
> such an incomprehensible pile of shit, that it can only be used carefully in
> GUI mode. I think its menus were written by aliens.
>
> Nevertheless, I am still loyal to KDE, as I made the jump from Gnome when I
> moved from Unix to Linux long ago. So help me please!
>

Hi,

Simply because KDE4 is not KDE3.

If you don't like KDE4, keep using KDE3. If it fits your necessity,
why change? Some distros still mantain KDE3 packages (unofficially but
mantains), for example, in openSUSE there is a guy who mantains KDE3
packages for 3 releases now.

An, btw this is the documentation writers list, not developers list ;-)

Regards,

Luiz