https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355190
--- Comment #16 from Artem S. Tashkinov <t.ar...@mailcity.com> --- Created attachment 98279 --> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=98279&action=edit KDE 3.5.10 (In reply to Kai Uwe Broulik from comment #15) > The thing is that our manpower is limited and there are features like this > one that we frankly did not consider as important as others. Exactly. KDE developers code for _themselves_ and choose things to work on on their own. Their userbase concerns are not their own cencerns. If what I'm saying is not true, we wouldn't have had two major fuck ups called KDE4 and KDE SC5. We wouldn't have had a situation when multiple applications from the past have no equivalents in KDE5. We wouldn't have had a situation when new KDE4/KDE SC5 application have far fewer features than their KDE3 counterparts. > Also, I was actually looking into implementing this very feature recently but > Artem's > comment really drove away my motivation for that... You see, you just prove my words all the freaking time. You're busy coding new shiny APIs no one cares about instead of making gradual changes while preserving old features. Who exactly uses KDE SC5 on smartphones, tablets or Windows? Who cares how portable KDE is? People need to work for God's sake. You do _everything_ to break people's workflow and then you suddenly realize that people have stopped using your software. Run stats on KDE bugzilla and you'll suddenly realize people's activity as of recently has substantially decreased even though overall more people use Linux nowadays. Have you asked yourself why? Do you realize that both KDE and Gnome have long stopped being the most popular DEs in Linux? Do you know what's number one right now? XFCE4 running GTK2 is. People are tired of your shit, sir. You do _not_ remove crucial features just because you believe that new APIs are better than the old ones. People do not care about APIs. You do not remove xembed (systray) support and break dozens of apps, just because you think everyone should upgrade from xembed. You do not remove absolutely useful systray apps and replace them with UGLY unusable plasmoids which you cannot embed into systray at all, because you present information very sparsely. Have a look at my task bar in KDE 3.5.10. Now tell me if I can do anything like that in KDE5. 1) It's fully transparent (it has an option for that) - do not tell me about unsupported KDE5 themes. 2) It has applications which don't have existing corresponding .desktop shortcuts. 3) It has KNetStats which show network activity in real time by blinking. 4) It has a weather applet. 5) KSensors (including _voltages_, _fans_ speed and temperatures). You tell me to upgrade to KDE5 to have my workflow royally fucked? What for? Don't get me started on the fact that KDE4/KDE5 are absolute resource hogs in comparison to KDE3 while _usually_ having less polish, working slower and having uglier UI out of the box. It's not users who drive you away. It's you who drive users away. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
