KDE SC 4: The good, the bad, and the broken

[Dotan Cohen]

On 26 May 2010 10:48, Dennis <dennismail at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>> It seems that few people realise that Desktop was simply a directory under ~/,
>> despite the fact that they must have seen it as such within Konqueror file
>> manager.   KDE 3 displayed that directory's contents by default.  KDE 4 began
>> to treat it correctly, as a directory.
>
> Ah, this is a point I´ve never seen as such, too, I truly admit. I think this would make clear the technology behind it to many people.
>
> So, to take it back to the subject of this thread - the presentation, could this point possibly be integrated? I think the goal of the presentation may also be to make people move to KDE SC 4, despite all the negative opinions that can be found al around the net. Or did I misunderstand the idea behind the presentation? (Let me add that I´m a person that always tries to explain such things in simple words, so that everybody may think "oh wow, this is true, let´s use this").
>

It's a bit late as I've given the presentation already, but it is a
good point. I'll bat the idea around a bit.

The intention of the presentation was not to convince people to use
KDE, rather, to show people that it exists. I tried to keep it very
neutral and to disspell some of the myths of KDE 4. For instance, I
discussed this article which addresses the accusation that KDE 4 is
slow due to the eye candy:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=kwin_speed_test

Some people think that KDE 4.0 is KDE 4, and they need to know that
KDE 4 _is_ ready for end users now.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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