Well done and thanks

[Lucas Murray]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 2:50 AM, Marcus Harrison
<marcus.harrison at harrisonland.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello.
> Now, you probably don't know who I am. I'm a KDE 4 user.
> There's actually no real point to this E-mail, but having browsed the web and
> seen some of the comments being made, I felt some of the KDE developers don't
> get enough recognition for how difficult it is to design such a high-end DE. I
> actually found it quite brave of the KDE team to go the direction it did, what
> with Plasma, KWin and some of the other, lesser seen technologies underneath,
> but I can also see the benefits of these choices already: Plasma, although it
> started out quite unstable and (for all intents and purposes) unusable, has
> turned into a very exciting piece of technology which I find myself taking
> advantage of all the time; KWin had the Compiz fans asking why they should
> switch from Compiz to KWin, but now I find I waste less time configuring Compiz
> to behave how I've already told KWin to behave and more time using Alt+F10 and
> typing the window I want to go to; even some Windows critics complain that
> some of the applications are inconsistent  (which is like comparing MSN Live
> messenger with Windows Media Player: they are completely different). The KDE
> team's come under fire quite a lot and I don't believe it deserves it for the
> hard work people like you have put into it. This DE was the one that genuinely
> inspired me to start learning serious programming languages (having already
> designed websites for a long while), because with all the options that have
> been given to me to configure so easily I always found myself imagining new
> ways to change it, some of which I add to bugs.kde.org as a wish, but I also
> find myself wishing that I could be adding these things myself, or taking some
> other people's suggestions and adding them to SVN playground or somewhere
> else. I even gave GNOME a fair trial, using it instead of KDE for a week, but
> what I found was that it was so difficult to change anything that when I went
> back to KDE, it was like a breath of fresh air.
>
> Anyway, this E-mail ended up longer then I wanted it to and you might not even
> end up reading it, so well done for your contributions so far and thanks for
> helping KDE improve.

Thank you for the E-mail, I have forwarded it to the other developers
as well. =)