Stepping down from KDE SIG

[Sudhir Khanger]

---- On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 21:52:15 +0530 Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote ---- 

I don't think there are any intentional improvements from user perspective,
only from developer perspective, since the timings from v3->v4 and v4-v5 seem
based purely on QT changing v3->v4 and v4->v5. From where I sit, feature loss
has overpowered feature gain with each major KDE version change, even as
maturing progressed/progresses.

It depends on how you look at it.

The whole new flexible design approach was much needed. We have a far greater consistency in the UI then we had in KDE4. Plasma for me is mostly the panel, App Dash, and actual apps. I am very happy with the status bar, widgets, notifications, etc. What will happen to the apps is yet to be seen? I have not seen any "use-facing" improvements in Kontact, which I use religiously, is certainly concerning. Folks don't like to install KDE apps on non-KDE environments because it pulls 100s of deps. I would like to see some statistics if that problem has been resolved with the framework thing.


I wasn't a KDE user when it made transition from v2 to v3 to v4. I don't hear good things about it. v4 to v5 transition where all widgets are made obsolete is not the best thing to do to the KDE ecosystem. I hope we don't continue to obsolete everything every time there is a major version upgrade.


Regards,
Sudhir Khanger,
sudhirkhanger.com.


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