On Wednesday 16 November 2011 03:45:51 pm Timothy Pearson wrote:
All,
Given what has been happening lately with respect to KDE4, and the media incorrectly attempting to portray us as directly competing with KDE4, and there only on reliability and direct feature-set parity, I have a challenge for you:
Write a few sentences stating what you like about TDE most. Leave KDE4 and other desktop environments completely out of the picture (no direct comparisons), and focus on the strengths of this particular desktop environment. Mentioning the general theme of your work (i.e. engineering, software development, sales, etc.) isn't a bad idea either; this would help us gather some demographics on who uses TDE vs who uses other desktops.
I use TDE on my home computer, and for literally everything (unless I'm on a computer too-limited to run a desktop environment). I like to keep things plain and simple, but I don't like having being limited in my options or ability to customize. I also don't much care for the "modern look" thing that most companies and projects are going for. That's exactly why I use TDE. It allows me to customize to my heart's content without over complicating things or forcing a "modern look" on my eyes ;-)
I am also interested in the other side of the coin: What do you hate about TDE the most? If other people agree the results could become the basis of some new enhancement requests, helping to make TDE better overall.
What do I hate the most about TDE? Hmm... Konqueror's KHTML severely outdated and doesn't work well on modern web sites. Also KOffice, which is too simplistic even for me. Other than these, I can't really think of anything :-)