From kde-panel-devel Fri Nov 28 03:23:14 2008 From: "Lucas Murray" Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:23:14 +0000 To: kde-panel-devel Subject: Re: Well done and thanks Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-panel-devel&m=122784265210249 On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 2:50 AM, Marcus Harrison wrote: > Hello. > Now, you probably don't know who I am. I'm a KDE 4 user. > There's actually no real point to this E-mail, but having browsed the web and > seen some of the comments being made, I felt some of the KDE developers don't > get enough recognition for how difficult it is to design such a high-end DE. I > actually found it quite brave of the KDE team to go the direction it did, what > with Plasma, KWin and some of the other, lesser seen technologies underneath, > but I can also see the benefits of these choices already: Plasma, although it > started out quite unstable and (for all intents and purposes) unusable, has > turned into a very exciting piece of technology which I find myself taking > advantage of all the time; KWin had the Compiz fans asking why they should > switch from Compiz to KWin, but now I find I waste less time configuring Compiz > to behave how I've already told KWin to behave and more time using Alt+F10 and > typing the window I want to go to; even some Windows critics complain that > some of the applications are inconsistent (which is like comparing MSN Live > messenger with Windows Media Player: they are completely different). The KDE > team's come under fire quite a lot and I don't believe it deserves it for the > hard work people like you have put into it. This DE was the one that genuinely > inspired me to start learning serious programming languages (having already > designed websites for a long while), because with all the options that have > been given to me to configure so easily I always found myself imagining new > ways to change it, some of which I add to bugs.kde.org as a wish, but I also > find myself wishing that I could be adding these things myself, or taking some > other people's suggestions and adding them to SVN playground or somewhere > else. I even gave GNOME a fair trial, using it instead of KDE for a week, but > what I found was that it was so difficult to change anything that when I went > back to KDE, it was like a breath of fresh air. > > Anyway, this E-mail ended up longer then I wanted it to and you might not even > end up reading it, so well done for your contributions so far and thanks for > helping KDE improve. Thank you for the E-mail, I have forwarded it to the other developers as well. =) _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel