Why KDE4 is called KDE?

Jose Celestino japc at co.sapo.pt
Sat Dec 12 17:30:46 GMT 2009


On Qui, 2009-12-10 at 21:21 +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2009-12-09, Draciron Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at> wrote:

> > 
> > Because it tears at everything that made KDE dear to a large number of
> > people. KDE 4 is NOT KDE except in name. It has betrayed the
> > principles and ideas that made KDE so successful.
> 
> Quite overgeneralizing statement.
> Most of KDE's products is exactly like they used to be, often developed a lot 
> further, e.g. Okular surpassing KPDF by far.
> 

Notorious counter-example is Amarok, it went from a powerful media
player to a useless P.O.S.

But I guess most of everything else (that I use, at least) as improved,
Digikam, Gwenview, Konsole, etc.



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