The same thing happened to me. KDE3 was one of the best desktops. Then things where going downhill, at least from my perspective. There was also Kmail, once a

The same thing happened to me. KDE3 was one of the best desktops. Then things where going downhill, at least from my perspective. There was also Kmail, once a very usable tool for me (I think, the best version also came with KDE3). Then after the update (I guess with KDE4) there where some bugs on receiving eMail that happened again and again. It was nasty (I still can't get it, how they managed to kill the simple POP3 handler) but I could use my mail still. After that with the next update came a version that did not manage to import my old mailboxes that I had managed with Kmail for years. They simply killed this once good application for me! Just for gimmicks. Today I use webmail, though I don't like it. Also they managed to cripple KDE4 more and more ... The desktop applications did not do what was documented and they fixed bugs, that did not exist, thus removing or crippling once valuable options ... There was also a bug filed for that, but the developers just did not listen. Now I use another desktop, but I fear, one day I also need to kick this one, since I see similar behavior -- adding or removing features, complete rewrites, just because it is a nice mind-game or in fashion. I also where thinking to use a really old desktop that nobody uses anymore, just to be free from feature-creep and fashion-ism. I need the computer to work with, not playing mind-games and update-platformers!