Kde3.5 / Kde4.x OR Kde3.5 / Nde1.x

[Derek Broughton]

Martin Laberge wrote:

> Yes this has been tell before.
> 
> This is my way of seeing it.
> 
> Kde4 is not a Kde anymore, it is a New-Desktop-Environment
> it is in fact Nde-1.x
> 
> We all are trying to compare kde3 and kde4 here.
> 
> this is not right.
> 
> kde4 is in fact a totally new environment,
> totally different of others past kde's

Well, no.  It's no different from KDE3 than KDE3 was from KDE2 and KDE2 
was from KDE1 - I've used them all

> with new sound system, 

We got that at KDE2

> new hardware control,

I don't think KDE has any new hardware control - that's all at a lower 
level.

> new file browser, new semantics, new...
> 
> From Kde-1.x to Kde-3.x, a common sense have been
> maintained, perfected, polished, customised, standardised, ...

Nope - and for me, KDE2 was a huge step backwards - much more so than 
KDE3 to KDE4, because it was also coupled with a move from the moribund 
Corel Linux to Debian, losing almost all of the neat features that Corel 
had added to KDE.
 
> Now with Kde4.x we all feel as we are in Nde-1.x
> 
> Almost nothing similar in basic system management,

Not that I can see....  I'm still managing my system as I used to.

> Almost nothing similar in API,

Certainly more true.

> Maybe there is a lesson here. (hum ???)
> 
> But with all my 30 years of computing, from punch-cards to usk-keys,
> I just don't know what the lesson is.    :-)

Nor I.
-- 
derek