Congrats KDE

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 So first things first... Congrats KDE we rock...

25 years fantastic... 


Now I was resting after some rather busy work days and came to an article on phorinix about KDE ...  And I get to this user comment on the comment section..

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And it's still ugly as hell by default. How difficult is it for KDE devs to create a nice and polished default theme? They invest a lot in bug fixes, new features, new functions etc, but they forget about the interface theme...."

Witch is fine I used to get this sort of thing all the time back in the day... 

But on the discussion that follow a lot of confusion started to appear..  

It's not new confusion, but... Somehow, now that I'm not as involved into the day to day design of it, it really made me angry...

If you you like open source you embrace it fully and embrace that it is about freedom, and part of that freedom is to make a desktop for people that don't mind options.. you like a different desktop with less options?, great we in open source also made that for you enjoy.. and a ton of other things in between, that is what is great about it.. freedom to experiment.. freedom to choose..

The vast majority of the Designers in KDE do their work in their free time without any more compensation than an occasional thank you, back in my time we were no more than 2-3 people at any given time...

Please stop comparing us to the likes of Apple and Microsoft, 2-3 designers can't do the work that you expect from multiple  hundreds ? The simple fact that sometimes we nail things better is bloody amazing.. so... Yeah... c'mon we do it for the users not to get random abuse online...

Ok rant mode off... 

Congrats KDE what we do works for me and millions more.. love what we, you do...


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Omar said…
The project is dead?
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