Comment 54 for bug 668415

And Torvalds switchted back to Gnome when KDE4 was released. Not because of
a lack of funtionality, but:

"*Another open-source project that underwent a big change was KDE with
Version 4.0. They released a lot of fundamental architectural changes with
4.0, and it received some negative reviews. As a KDE user, how has this
impacted you?* I used to be a KDE user. I thought KDE 4.0 was such a
disaster, I switched to GNOME. I hate the fact that my right button doesn't
do what I want it to do. But the whole "break everything" model is painful
for users, and they can choose to use something else.

I realize the reason for the 4.0 release, but I think they did it badly.
They did so may changes, it was a half-baked release. It may turn out to be
the right decision in the end, and I will retry KDE, but I suspect I'm not
the only person they lost.

I got the update through Fedora, and there was a mismatch from KDE 3 to KDE
4.0. The desktop was not as functional, and it was just a bad experience for
me. I'll revisit it when I reinstall the next machine, which tends to be
every six to eight months.

The GNOME people are talking about doing major surgery, so it could also go
the other way."
Source:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9126619/Q_A_Linux_founder_Linus_Torvalds_talks_about_open_source_identity?taxonomyId=18&pageNumber=5&taxonomyName=Software

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 6:13 AM, IKT <email address hidden> wrote:

> * I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
>
> This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
> Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
> use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
> since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
>
> Please, just tell people to use KDE.
> - Torvalds, Linus (2005-12-12). Message to <email address hidden> list. Retrieved on 2006-08-28.
>
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>
> Interesting that you say KDE has limited options as well now...
>
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>
> Title:
> Movement of Unity launcher
>
> Status in NULL Project:
> Invalid
> Status in Unity:
> Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
> Please consider this a possible feature request or wishlist.
>
> Now when Unity will be default desktop for 11.04 could you please
> consider to add option to configure Unity launcher placement. Add
> simple option to lock/unlock through right-click menu and drag
> launcher to desired location like left/right and bottom.
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