Is KDE really usable?

[Vladislav Blanton]

Hello,
does anyone know which list the original mail came from? I've recieved the
kde-quality version and I only have responses, not the full original post.

Thanks!
Vlad

On 10/23/06, chris <chris at deadhand.com> wrote:
>
> Am Sonntag, 22. Oktober 2006 18:33 schrieb Iñaki:
> > Unfotunatelly I don't see usability improvements in the most important
> apps
> > of KDE (Kontact, Konqueror), just new and "exotic" features that are not
> > neccesary for common users who only expect a reliable OS (that KDE can't
> > offer now to them).
> >
> > Of course I'll try to investigate and report all the important bugs I've
> > told here, but it was terrible for me when an advantage user had to
> > reinstall Gnome because it was impossible to work with KDE. And I saw
> all
> > the proccess, the bugs weren't "newbie" bugs, the problem was KDE, sure.
>
>
> Hello,
>
> though that doesn't add much to your mail I can say that I, beeing a KDE
> user
> ever since 3.0, can confirm most of the issues you mentioned.
>
> Especially the crashing of Konqueror and Kontact. It has always been
> there. It
> got a bit better the last few releases, but with all the rambling of the
> cool
> new stuff for KDE4 I don't see that improving to an acceptable point in
> the
> near future.
> And to most users it really is not acceptable if applications such
> important
> as the file manager and PIM suite crash - at all. So I can see how others
> aren't willing to enjoy the rest of KDE for this sole reason.
>
> Everyone who used Konqueror for some serious file management like moving
> and
> copying larger folder structures from one partition over to another,
> opening
> all sorts of archives, doing drag and drop between ark an Konqueror and so
> on
> will at some point run into a crash. Most of those that happen to me (on
> several machines) are related to drag and drop, but I could never really
> point at what was the cause (in order to avoid that in the future).
>
> Hope you manage to report some useful bugs and won't be faced with too
> much
> denial at that.
>
> Chris
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