On Wednesday 25 December 2013 13:11:57 Darrell Anderson wrote:
I am fine with both versions. I think the second one misses the point that TDE is a DE which puts productivity before fancy- useless-bothering visual effects, which I think is the main reason why people use TDE. Perhaps the following version is a little
better:
I understand your feelings. :)
A goal of a press release is to offer a positive spin and focus on the announced product rather than what other products lack. We want to refrain from KDE bashing. If you browse the dev mail list archives from a while ago, you'll discover that a couple of KDE devs invited themselves into our mail list and started a nasty spitting contest. Got rather heated. Nobody won and one of the KDE devs took to his blog to continue bashing Trinity. He stopped that public campaign when a lot of people posted comments to his blog entry to leave us the hell alone, that the free/libre software philosophy allows and embraces forking. He was reminded that we were not harming anybody. After those public rebuttals he stayed away, but I have not forgotten him or his tirades.
No, I stopped because there was nothing coming from Trinity lately which I thought worthwhile to comment on. And you see I haven't forgotten you either and still follow your development ;-)
I'm not afraid of bashing KDE4, especially the piece of shit known as akonadi,
And here we see, why I wrote in my blog post you refer to that "It’s pure hatred against KDE technologies and this dominates the development of Trinity." - I think your comment here speaks for yourself.
If you think KDE is shit, write it. Don't go the way of trying to avoid any bitching against KDE. It's not true and your archives are public. Everybody can read it and what you really mean.
Nevertheless, no hard feelings from my side. I wish you all success for your release and (although already a little bit late) a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Martin