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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE4: missing features from KDE3
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2009-08-05 8:38:45
Message-ID: 200908050238.45997.aseigo () kde ! org
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On Wednesday 05 August 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
> Somewhere along the line, too, we have to consider how we sell to those
> users that an alternative way of doing that particular thing has been (or
> is being) done in a plasmoid.  That's often the case.  As far as I can see,
> if the desired end can be achieved the developer has done his job.  It's
> then up to the user to learn a new way of working.  

agreed; there are three things i can think of that could be done as part of a 
multi-facet solution (though i'm not sure what mix would be best right now):

* post a clear list of things that will not be re-implemented and why; this is 
FAQ material really and shouldn't be host for discussion.

* write tutorials on the "KDE4 way" to get those things done

* encourage people to look at the features that are new in KDE4, get them 
looking _forwards_ rather than backwards; right now i do fear that we spend a 
lot of time as a community looking over our shoulder. we need to do some of 
that, for sure, but probably not as much as we're doing now. unfortunately, 
our documentation on "stuff you can do with KDE4" is fairly slim due to its 
youthfulness.

i assume the above is probably what you had in mind as well, or at least 
similar?

> You really CAN'T do
> anything about a totally closed mind that refuses to make any such change.

sure; but i think those are very few, thankfully. even people who threw 
absolute tantrums in very public places (SJVN, for example) and may have given 
the impression of "won't change, ever!" have come around.

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