Does Fedora want to expel KDE from its offerings?

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Sun Dec 14 00:42:33 UTC 2014



Am 14.12.2014 um 01:40 schrieb Luigi Toscano:
> Giuliano Colla ha scritto:
>>
>> Il 13/12/2014 22:03, Patrick O'Callaghan ha scritto:
>>> [...]
>>> For once I agree with Reindl. I don't even understand what Plasma is and
>>> I've been an exclusively KDE user since version 3.
>>
>> I know that you know, but in a nutshell the Plasma workspace is a bloated tray
>> taking all the screen, and populated with buggy applets called Plasmoids. But
>> if you select "Folder view" you get a Desktop where you may put what you need
>> (folders, files, application launchers, etc.) and get a decent KDE.
>
> But that's still Plasma. Just a different configuration.
>
>> One day KDE developers will realize that a computer Desktop must be like a
>> desktop where we keep the documents we're working on and the tools to operate
>> on them, and not third party applications. That day KDE will conquer again the
>> popularity it's lost with the "evolution" toward Plasma. I know a lot of
>> people which dropped KDE because of Plasma, I don't know anyone who switched
>> to KDE, fascinated by Plasma.
>
> You just said that you can get a "decent desktop". So it's a matter of
> configuration. Again, a different issue. We are talking about naming here and
> "old" people who knows the difference can help with spreading the change,
> instead of opposing it

sorry, but i do not need to help spreading a completly useless "change" 
because if i am interested in marketing i go out and by a Mac

KDE is KDE - period

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