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KDE would be more popular today if it wasn't for KDE 4. I think KDE 4 was a big regression from KDE 3 in many ways. After KDE 4 it got better and right now it
by 29athrowaway 6y ago
KDE would be more popular today if it wasn't for KDE 4.
I think KDE 4 was a big regression from KDE 3 in many ways.
After KDE 4 it got better and right now it's good again. Unfortunately, I've already made the switch to other desktop environments.
The initial releases of Gnome 3 were also a big regression from Gnome 2. Now Gnome 3 has gotten much better.
- majewsky 6y agoKDE 4.0 was a necessary stepping stone to get where KDE/Plasma is today. It would for sure have been nice to have a more feature-complete 4.0 release, but I don't see what the dev team could realistically have done better. There were only that many developers, so the only way would have been to further delay the 4.0 release, thus rendering KDE obsolete in a different way by not shipping anything for even longer. Source: I was with the KDE dev team from about 2008-2012.
- 29athrowaway 6y agoI completely understand the developer point of view. Just talking about the UX. I think the KDE team is very productive and have influenced the desktop experience greatly. Much of that influence is not well understood but can be seen in all the descendants of Konqueror (almost every modern browser now). The way docked windows work in KDevelop 3 was pretty nice. Then I saw it on other IDEs. I am not sure which came first.
- nsonha 6y agocoincidentally KDE 4 looks very similar to Windows Vista I actually like it because I was a Windows user back then and I could run KDE 4 on Windows.
- 29athrowaway 6y agoThe style resembles Vista but it was the least graphically polished release of KDE in my opinion. KDE 1, 2 and 3 felt polished and detailed in their own ways. KDE 4 felt a bit like developer art.