27 Feb
2016
27 Feb
'16
3:14 p.m.
In the wake of the KDE3->KDE4 transition disaster a
few systems stayed on
recent Evergreen versions still supporting KDE3, while my professional systems
moved to KDE4 when it became stable and usable again around 4.5.
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Having done a Grand Tour through all current Linux desktops, I was devastated:
Only 2 really useful, flexible, and powerful options remained -- XFCE and
Trinity TDE. I'm strongly in favor of dual-source concepts, so I will support
the survival of TDE, and hopefully its rise to an official "distro desktop"
...
I was on Debian but I also went through a similar path in the past. KDE 3.5 was
great,
KDE4 was not even worth being called a DE when it was first released (although around 4.6
or 4.7
it was again usable), switched to Gnome 2 until the even more disastrous Gnome 2->Gnome
3
transition. Then XFCE for a couple of years but I always felt somehow limited by its small
footprint
(but I consider it a great DE). Then by chance I discovered TDE and never looked back
anymore :-)
Cheers
Michele