It makes the TDE community look bad (and certainly not inviting to growing our ranks) when it is so popular to be hostile towards anything other than TDE. You expect there to be a few jerks in any community, but when the jerk percentage gets too high, you're keeping others away. The community won't grow.
I'm not talking about being opinionated. Probably everyone here is pretty opinionated about software freedom, & other unrelated things. I'm talking about coming off as a jerk.
I realize, we'll probably just end up agreeing to disagree about all of this, but this stuff seems pretty obvious to me.
cheers,
Elcaset
+1. Please keep the KDE/Gnome/etc. flaming off this list.
Think of it this way: would you so loudly criticize another system such as Mac OS X, or would you simply state that such a system was designed with a different user in mind, not for you, limited, etc.? KDE and other desktop offerings should be treated with at least some degree of respect--they are not competitors, but rather have a different idea of how people should be using their computers. An idea that seems to be rather popular at the moment I might add, no matter how much I personally disagree with it. ;-)
Also, please remember that there is technology in KDE that might be useful to us in the future; not everything in the KDE project is incompatible with the TDE project's goals.
Tim