28 Jul
2021
28 Jul
'21
5:25 p.m.
On Wednesday 28 July 2021 10:09:20 J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2021-07-28 11:11:23 Hunter via tde-users wrote:
Developers of the newer KDE and Gnome in particular (but there are other
culprits) keep changing things, apparently just to show that they stay busy.
It is sort of like living with somebody who is always changing round the
furniture, merely out of boredom. I like to be able to find my way around in
the dark, because I just know where everything is supposed to be.
My KDE3>TDE desktop has not changed much since about 2005, and that's how I
like it.
I think a big part of the "problem" (from my own vantage point) is that many
developers are relatively younger by comparison with many of their users --
and especially many of the users on the TDE mailing list. As somebody else
pointed out, we tend to be more conservative in our choices about things like
systemd versus init; and I imagine that this trait carries over into other
areas, as well.
Maybe I am just set in my ways, but I don't mind change and novelty, if there
is some good practical reason. Change just for the sake of change, however,
can only be good for somebody who has nothing better to do. I don't work in
technology; I use my machines to do other things in life, so unnecessary
changes are a waste of time.
Bill
GTK3 is an eyesore, but I guess Qt5 is as well.
In my view, it's not so much that they're eyesores as that they provide
such user-UNfriendly controls: in Gnome's case, too little control; in
QT's, too obscure. And of course, just like Windoze, they keep moving
things around so the user has to re-learn where the various controls are.
Leslie