[CS-FSLUG] Pardon me while I grouch

[Don Parris]

On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 22:05:04 -0500
Ed Hurst <ehurst at asisaid.com> wrote:

> (unreasonable rant mode on)
> 
> After a week or so fooling around with SUSE 9.3's KDE desktop, I ditched
> it for IceWM. That's what I usually do. Much as I love the tools and the
> way it works, it's just too darned buggy. It always has been, and I
> suspect always will be. Since I have sufficient RAM to use it, I may try
> to download the 100MB or so of update packages (on somebody else's
> connection) from 3.4.0 to 3.4.2, but I don't expect it will be much
> better.
> 
> One member of this list said he felt KDE spent too much time debugging,
> and not getting the next release out the door. Ha! I wish it were so.
> I've yet to see any release that worked as it was supposed to work. They
> keep adding new features, and inevitably some are broken. Just once, I'd
> love to see a polished and stable release, where just the few things I
> use weren't broken. For example, use Kwrite long enough to produce a
> page of text -- any text -- and it will start slamming the CPU. The
> little indicator I put in the Kicker Panel shows the CPU graph leaping
> up and down every time I hit the keystrokes after a couple of
> paragraphs. There's just no excuse for that in a simple text editor.
> 
> Then get out of X and look at the console. There you will see 50 feet of
> error messages from a day or so of use in KDE. Again, that is just lousy
> development. I realize I don't know squat about code, but I know I don't
> get that pile of background error spew from much of anything else on
> Linux. Both KDE and GNOME do it, though KDE is more verbose these days.
> If it's inconsequential, why even turn the messages on? Why, after some
> 50 releases and sub-releases do we still see something so clearly
> unfinished? Yep, we are really going to win over those Windows users.
> Novell-SUSE's Konqueror browser chokes on Novell's own SUSE webpages
> because it can't handle some JavaScript.
> 
> Yes, I've had these same gripes for over two years now. It's like the
> pastor that gave the exact same sermon two Sundays in a row. When the
> deacons asked why, he said, "You didn't listen the first time." The
> church was doing things the same way as before. You don't get anywhere
> if there aren't at least some incremental improvements here and there.
> I'm still waiting.
> 
> (rant mode off)
> 
> Whew! I feel better now.
> 
> -- 
> Ed Hurst
> -----------
> 

I'm not sure what to say, soooo....

Rant, brother!  Rant!

:-D

Blessings,
>From an XFce user
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