"Oh, I like constant ionmmverept, but lots of feature regressions from 3.5.x and then partying when you approach that same level of quality is not constant ionmmverept. "I would say that 4.2 surpasses 3.5 on just about every level. Sure, there might be some individual features that might not be there, but as a whole, 4.2 is A LOT better than 3.5 ever was.Do you expect that "constant ionmmverept" means that existing things should never be discarded? It's not quite like that. Sometimes things need to be discarded in order to make the whole better. You can't just keep on piling stuff. Sometimes, you need to trim the dead wood, in order to help the other stuff get better.Antoine de Saint Exupe9ry has many great quotes. One of them is:"Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed."If you ponder the meaning of that, and understand it, you will see that it's 100% true.It seems to me that you think that "constant ionmmverept" means that KDE4 should have even more configuration-options, even more widgets, gizmos and gadgets. Even more "stuff" that distracts you. But that path leads to insanity.KDE4 should be (and it is) about allowing the user to do more. To be more effective and to accomplish more. No, that does not mean that it should be filled with dials, spinboxes and other clutter that distracts you.Or what do you mean by "quality"? We should keep in mind that KDE4 is now 1 year old, and (including 4.2) it has three major releases. KDE3 is A LOT older with more time worked on it. It should also be noted that while KDE4 is basically a rewrite (that is, it's not that much based on KDE3), KDE3 was a lot less ambitious. It didn't really have any new stuff, it was more about refining the technologies introduced in KDE2.If we look at other projects, we can see that first few releases of OS X were crap, but today it's few orders of magnitude better than what MacOS 9 was. KDE is in a similar situation. KDE4 if a clean break from the past. It has a lot of new technologies and functionality when compared to it's predecessor, it's quite natural that it takes time for all that stuff to settle down.Some people seem to suffer from an extreme case of schizophrenia. Take for example the case of desktop-icons and folderview. The old system of piling icons on the desktop was replaced with a system that is a lot more flexible and powerful. What did some people do? Whine. They whined that some essential feature was removed, when in fact a crappy feature was removed and replaced by something that is better, more powerful and more flexible.If people want power and features, why do they insist on hanging on to features that are crap? Why do they whine when they are presented with features that have more power and flexibility? It honestly makes no sense.Some people seem to have a nostalgic attachment to KDE3, and anything that deviates from that (no matter if it's ten times better) is automatically bad. Well, those people will never be happy with KDE4,Here are two more quotes from the great man that seem relevant:"Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings""Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it."

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