Re: [opensuse] openSUSE 11.0 and the Non-ready KDE4 On Thursday 14 February 2008 04:03:50 pm Cristian RodrÃ­guez wrote:
> JB2 escribiÃ³:
> > Again, I say 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it!'. Kalarm from 7.3 to 9.3
> > worked well...now it doesn't in 10.3.
>
> did you filled a bug report ?
>
> btw.. my old cassette radio is also working fine, however tapes are more
> expensive than CDs nowdays.. same applies to software, mantaining an old
> product is a hell lot of work and **really** expensive.

This is what I attempted to tell. 
KDE4 is not polished KDE3, it is totally new product. 
That is the fact that many don't (want to) realize. 

Old KDE (KDE3) applications don't work in KDE4. 
They have to be rewritten, and that is the reason why KDE4 is missing a lot of 
functionality that is present in KDE3. 

Why completely new KDE? 

It is the fact that after some time hardware is faster, new standards are 
introduced, new services are comming, some old are going out of use, and that 
is changing software landscape, ie. premises that developer is using while 
creating software. The same as with old radio, adding functionality that 
people want cost much more than to create new one. 

'If it ain't broke, don't fix it!' is my favorite, but it doesn't prevent me 
from ditching old device when new comes, that has some convenient functions 
missing in old one. 

-- 
Regards, Rajko.
See http://en.opensuse.org/Portal



