12 Feb
2025
12 Feb
'25
9:12 a.m.
On 2/11/25 5:24 PM, dep via tde-users wrote:
Thanks. It seems that the answer for now is to stick
with the old. Too
often the Linux motto seems to be if it ain't broke, break it.
Fewer words were ever so true. The craze really seemed to take off with the
announcements of Gnome 3 and Kde 4. Then, freedesktop entered the mix and
while what was broken, was fixed, it seems to have engulfed a large number of
good competitive packages into what is now the ever-growing "modular" monolith
of systemd and friends :)
I really wonder where Linux-on-the-desktop would be if Gtk+3 hadn't spent a
decade breaking backwards compatibility for themes with every point-release,
and if KDE 4 hadn't been released in alpha-state not taken a decade to
complete Qt3-4 porting of all apps (some just died and were never ported)
Progress is a good thing and there are always growing pains, but repeatedly
shooting yourself in the foot indicates not a lot has been learned for history.
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.