They had to move to Qt4, and took the chance to make some big changes - in the name of "convergence", which was a shared buzzword back then. They generated a lo

They had to move to Qt4, and took the chance to make some big changes - in the name of "convergence", which was a shared buzzword back then. They generated a lot of hype, then shipped a 4.0 release that was very half-baked. Whether that was always the plan or not, the public image of the project never fully recovered.