kde4: viva la revolucion?
It's a pity to see that members of the KDE community are incapable of making a difference between the utterance 'I hate it' and 'It sucks'. I also think it is a pity that a very verbal and visible member of that community seems fit to dispense with politeness in his reaction. That Mr. Seigo is
tired of this shit
does not warrant his malignant rudeness.
The worst however is a
neat little reality check for all of you: for every one of you little bitter people i've run into probably 2-3 who are loving it.
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I have to admit, it's getting better
The latest KDE Four Live CD from openSUSE shows some noticeable improvement in desktop fit and finish. (I almost wish they'd included an installer. It probably runs a whole lot more smoothly from your hard disk.)
If you have an nvidia-based graphics card and the binary driver for it saved on one of your partitions, you can install it while running from the live CD (by following the manual installation instructions on the openSUSE wiki) to get a better idea of what it'll look like with all the bells and whistles enabled. (You'll need to make the ordinary user a member of the "video" group in order to enable direct rendering.)
Much of this carping probably boils down to two things. First, nobody likes change (except, as they say, a wet baby). The KDE team, while busily coding away, hasn't spent much time explaining the changes to the end users (i.e. us non-programmers), explaining the rationale for the changes, or providing much in the way of documentation (e.g. of things like config files).
Second, Aaron Seigo's reply in this blog post exhibits an attitude that seems common amongst developers. To paraphrase, it's along the lines of, If you don't like it, write some better (or different) code, or STFU. And does anyone in the KDE development team care what long-term KDE users think of Dolphin, System Settings, Plasma, etc? I'd bet that a big part of the frustration is that people feel they have no input into KDE 4. (Seigo's the KDE hacker who came up with Plasma.)
In any case, he's right about one thing. Throwing rocks at each other gets us nowhere.