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KDE 4.0 was still somewhat immature when it was released, but I'd hesitate to call it a debacle. From what I remember, it was meant mainly for early adopters, s
by Pacabel 12y ago
KDE 4.0 was still somewhat immature when it was released, but I'd hesitate to call it a debacle. From what I remember, it was meant mainly for early adopters, so that issues could be discovered and resolved quickly. KDE 4.1 addressed many of these. KDE 4.2 and subsequent releases have provided an extremely robust desktop environment.
On the other hand, GNOME 3 was a debacle, without any doubt. KDE 4 resulted in nowhere near the level of backlash and response that GNOME 3 did. I mean, GNOME 3 was and is so bad that it spawned two rather significant and ongoing salvage attempts in MATE and Cinnamon, in addition to completely driving away a lot of existing users. We just didn't see anything close to that with KDE 4.
- zanny 12y agoKDE4 was released when KDE3 was still seeing support. Gnome 3 dropped Gnome 2 entirely, and they even dropped the "compatibility mode" old desktop around the 3.4 release I think, well before most people were keen on switching to Gnome 3. The early adopters of both complained about how different everything was, but at least in KDE land version 3 was still available for a while. It took the Mate project to maintain Gnome 2.
- mappu 12y ago>GNOME 3 was and is so bad that it spawned two rather significant and ongoing salvage attempts in MATE and Cinnamon ... We just didn't see anything close to that with KDE 4. Trinity is a fork of KDE3, that was highly-publicized at the time and still sees some ongoing development.