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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    When will KDE4 restore the missing functionalities from KDE3?
From:       Ozan Çağlayan <ozan () pardus ! org ! tr>
Date:       2010-02-21 21:48:31
Message-ID: 4B81AA2F.2070205 () pardus ! org ! tr
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Hi,

Please consider taking a look at the following bug:

"Landscape pdf prints with wrong orientation when choosing landscape in print dialog"
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181290

And I'm quoting from my last comment to the bug:

"""

"KDE 3 has a printing system, KDE 4 doesn't. Spot the difference."

That's the key. KDE4 doesn't have a kdeprint like subsytem. What a functional
regression from KDE3! I really don't get the whole development practice of KDE
in some fields. system-config-printer-kde is another headache about printing.

From:
http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.5_Feature_Plan

"TODO - system-config-printer-kde - Restore feature parity with KDEPrint3 where
possible."

Oh my god. That should already be in a working and
"identical-to-kdeprint3-functionality" state in KDE 4.0 which is released in
January 2008. 2 whole years, and nothing.

Amarok got the same critics too. They totally broke all the stuff and started
whole from the ground but at least they care and they are active.

And then, what are they doing? plasma desktop, widgets, social networking
stuff. Tons of stuff about nepomuk, akonadi, semantik search, etc. Okay, all of
those are very promising and exciting innovations but at least start to focus
them after completing the essentials of a desktop environment.

KDE3 had a kio-bluetooth, KDE4 doesn't still have it. There are tons of things
like that.

"""

I'd really like to hear the feelings of the community about the issue. Why functional \
regressions from KDE3 were never considered as release blockers?

And yes I'd really like to print my landscape pdf's or transfer files from my \
telephone using konqueror instead of turning my virtual desktops or semantically \
searching for my tagged files or learning the time from plasma themed clock.

I don't blame any specific developer by saying such. Just please please please at \
least start enumerating the lost functionalities from KDE3 and consider focusing them \
on the next release instead of adding tons of new features.

Regards,
Ozan Caglayan


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