From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 26 11:14:37 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 796E9106568D for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:14:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from motoom@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.39]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1535A8FC14 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:14:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pasta.gandhi.xs4all.nl (gandhi.xs4all.nl [83.161.213.238]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n7QAoZmY067036 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:50:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from motoom@xs4all.nl) From: Michiel Overtoom To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:50:00 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <20090807142320.0dcae186@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200908261250.00903.motoom@xs4all.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Subject: Re: KDE3 --> KDE4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:14:37 -0000 On Friday 07 August 2009 16:12:03 Andrew Gould wrote: > Is there an increase in usability/benefit to match the increase in > resource consumption? As I see it, KDE4 fell in the Vista trap. I tried KDE4 and was showered with eye candy effects, some of which couldn't even be disabled. Also, quite a few features I used in KDE3 were missing from KDE4. I never understood the need for transparent windows. If you're working in a window you want to concentrate on its contents, not on stuff that's happening beneath it. It breaks the flow. I think it's indicative of the ritalin-generation of teens who can't concentrate for two minutes and need to constantly tweet about nonsense. Geez, I'm getting old ;-) In my time, we didn't have color screens. We had machine code on the bare metal, and a USER PORT to hook up your hardware. Greetings, -- "The ability of the OSS process to collect and harness the collective IQ of thousands of individuals across the Internet is simply amazing." - Vinod Valloppillil http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween4.html