On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 04:30:02PM +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 12 May 2011 07:54:13 -0500, Dale wrote: > > > I just hope they also learned from their mistakes. Dropping KDE3 > > support long before KDE4 was ready was a big one. That shouldn't be > > repeated. > > If it's as good as everyone says, what more support did it need? Did the > KDE guys come knocking on your door to remove it, or do it remotely > (Android anyone?), or did it just keep working? >
That argument is probably valid when limiting the scope of the discussion to gentoo, but the only use I ever had for kde3 was for non-techie users who wouldn't know whether to poop or go blind if they click on something and nothing happens (or the worng thing happens). I had all but two on openSuse and the rest on Kubuntu in the kde3 days, but kde3 is nowhere near as idiot-proof now on either of those distros. I do not want to support non-techie users using obscure, deprecated, unmaintained code for something as critical as their DE! It's hard enough when everything works as advertised... To be honest, I haven't quite worked up the courage to put any users on gentoo, though it's become the only distro I feel really good about using. If we had more uniform hardware it would be a lot less daunting and I'd have probably done it already, but the idea of having to manage so many individual builds is just highly suboptimal. > I'd say that you got excellent value for money, and a lot more support > for an EOL product than you paid for. Yes, it would have been nice if they > had waited until KDE4 was a little more polished before EOLing KDE3, but > who would have paid for two dev teams? > Yes, but you should have heard the wailing and gnashing of teeth of the non-tech users, it was like being surrounded by 8000 drunken harpies and it lasted almost three months til they finally resigned themselves to xfce. I will not go through that again. -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫
