said Chris M via tde-users:

I am curious to know what's the backstory on TDE?

Why is KDE 3.5 being kept alive all of these years later?

And what is TDE's Purpose? 

Reddit. Really?

KDE was once very good. It was always under attack, because Qt, then

because the right people didn't back it, then because Gnome. But it was

the first decent Linux desktop, and it worked.

When KDE-4 came out, it sucked. And the KDE boys became defensive,

downright nasty in fact about it. (To this day, if you point out some KDE

thing that doesn't work, the response is always "I don't see you writing

something better." To wit the mess that is Plasma Bigscreen, which has

been in development for four years and still can't do anything anyone

would want done.) To excuse their own shortcomings, they attack everything

else.

Modern KDE goes out of its way to make things more complicated than they

need to be. Consider the difference between putting an application on

Kicker in TDE -- drag it there -- and modern KDE, which involved multiple

steps, success is not assured, and it it possible to lose their kickerish

thing entirely in the process.

Anyone who thinks security has *anything* to do with the desktop being run

really should stay away from computers.

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