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Re: Bad promotion
by Tom on Friday 28/Mar/2008, @14:54

A lot of work has been done on Korganizer interface, you're not very respectful for the developers. Have a look at the nice agenda view; they also introduced a new month view which looks promising usability-wise.

Anyway, you when you implement a new software, you have to promote it. People are free to use it or not. If it doesn't suit their purpose/expectation, they can wait for the next version. If there was no "promoting" there won't be bug reports, there won't be bugfixes and the "crap" would stay crap.

Such a post is very disrespectful for developers. You might be a 10-years KDE user but it is not because you are not satisfied for one release that you can be so brutal ...

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Re: Bad promotion
by Jos And on Friday 28/Mar/2008, @15:30

There is not much to promote in KDE4 so its pretty shameless to advocate its use - the quality is really bad. It just feels like a clumsy version of Vista - and Vista is already clumsy. KDE4 is pretty much hyped the same way Koffice has been hyped, when only Kword is usable - its ridiculous and turns people away from KDE when reality hits them.
I'll wait for 4.1 before i try Korganiser. I know i had a hard time using it in 3.5.x before, and it was so unlogic to use that i gave up on it long ago.

Don worry about developers find posts disrespectful - its only a opinion from a end user and its clear that we really dont count. Its just sad that every time someone is critical then its judged as a troll post.

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Re: Bad promotion
by Jonas on Friday 28/Mar/2008, @17:14

It wouldn't be judged as a troll post if the criticism would actually be, you know, constructive. Just saying that something sucks or is clumsy or unusable doesn't help anyone - and certainly not the developers.

Is the current version of KDE4 as feature-filled and solid as the KDE3.5.x series? Certainly not, but none that I know of claims that it is either. It's been made VERY, in my opinion, clear that 4.0.x is for early adopters, developers, and/or people not afraid of getting their hands dirty every now and then while others (that is: end users) should wait at least until 4.1.

While I'm no developer by any stretch of the imagination, KDE 4 IS usable if you don't mind some glitches here and there not to mention using KDE 3.x apps to fill the gaps (for example, Kontact, Amarok, K3B, Digikam, Koffice - the programs I personally look forward the most to come out of alpha/beta). And yes, I use KDE 4.0.2. as my main desktop and for the most part it works just fine. Not as well as KDE 3.5.8, mind, but at this point in time I didn't expect it to.

And honestly, if you think Kontact is unlogical you can't have used many PIM suites. It's no more unlogical than say Evolution or Outlook. It may not suit your needs, but that's another issue entirely.

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