[Novalug] KDE 4

[dan arico]

On Thursday 28 May 2009 12:42:30 pm Soren Harward wrote:
> On 5/28/09, jecottrell3 at comcast.net <jecottrell3 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > But you're missing the real point, which is that Gratuitous Change is
> > Bad.
>
> I'm coming at this from a different perspective: I've used KDE4 since
> it was in beta, and I'm a semi-active developer for a KDE app
> (Amarok).  In my understanding, KDE4 was intended to be a nearly
> ground-up rewrite to fix a lot of limitations in the KDE3
> infrastructure and to provide some very cool, forward-looking,
> innovative services in the future (like Akonadi and Nepomuk).  Not
> everything's finished, but the 4.2 series is quite nice, and
> development continues: 4.2.4 is being tagged today, and the 4.3 series
> is already in feature freeze for release in about two months.  While I
> agree that gratuitous change is unproductive and annoying, I'll also
> say the same for users grousing about changes without taking the time
> to understand why development is proceeding in the direction that it
> is.

Different people want different things.

For instance, I don't use Amarok because all I want to do is play my music. I 
don't want an application that catalogs my entire music collection. I just 
need two things:

If I click on a file, it plays.

If I want to play a bunch of music, I want to be able to drag and drop into a 
file list.

I appreciate the amount of work that has gone into Amarok, but it's just not 
the way I use my music collection.

Dan

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