Nice editorial, Eric. I think you concerns raised in this article are fully valid and I don't perceive it as a rant.
I really like KDE and use it daily on multiple machines but to my opinion, it has many true points:
* KDE is and feels like a bunch of good and bad applications tied together with tape (resulting in bad usability)
* Although Plasma5/KDE5 looks nice, it's basically version 4 with a few new features and still the bad usability (I know porting takes time)
* There are a lot of applications that aren't even maintained anymore and are working not so good
* KDE concentrates on to many fronts (KDE Multimedia Center, Calligra, Porting everything to Qt5, New VDG-Features, Wayland, SDDM, ...)
* Really slow start up
* Terrible sound apple
But dont forget things got already better:
* the VDG (most important)
* Move to QT5
* Better release strategy
* Nice synergies between multiple distributions (Kubuntu, OpenSuse, Fedora KDE, Manjaro...)
I think KDE should rethink their strategy.
Do we really need to support and port all these applications that are not maintained?
Do we really need a Media Center Desktop?
Do we really need another Office package?
If you ask me, KDE should improve User's and Developer's needs first.
Improve Kwallet integration (e.g. auto open on login), integrate ksshaskpass, integrate ksuperkey, all these nifty hacks which makes live easy on KDE
And please rethink default options (like fullscreen composition off) etc.
I really like KDE and use it daily on multiple machines but to my opinion, it has many true points:
* KDE is and feels like a bunch of good and bad applications tied together with tape (resulting in bad usability)
* Although Plasma5/KDE5 looks nice, it's basically version 4 with a few new features and still the bad usability (I know porting takes time)
* There are a lot of applications that aren't even maintained anymore and are working not so good
* KDE concentrates on to many fronts (KDE Multimedia Center, Calligra, Porting everything to Qt5, New VDG-Features, Wayland, SDDM, ...)
* Really slow start up
* Terrible sound apple
But dont forget things got already better:
* the VDG (most important)
* Move to QT5
* Better release strategy
* Nice synergies between multiple distributions (Kubuntu, OpenSuse, Fedora KDE, Manjaro...)
I think KDE should rethink their strategy.
Do we really need to support and port all these applications that are not maintained?
Do we really need a Media Center Desktop?
Do we really need another Office package?
If you ask me, KDE should improve User's and Developer's needs first.
Improve Kwallet integration (e.g. auto open on login), integrate ksshaskpass, integrate ksuperkey, all these nifty hacks which makes live easy on KDE
And please rethink default options (like fullscreen composition off) etc.
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