Luca Beltrame
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author: einar
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- Linux
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date: "2007-05-01T11:16:24Z"
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slug: enough-with-the-negativity
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title: Enough with the negativity
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On a recent [dotKDE article](http://dot.kde.org/1177886099/) about the [weekly commit digest](http://commit-digest.org), someone brought up again the issue of [Plasma](http://plasma.kde.org/), a component of KDE 4 whose object is to bring "revolution" to the current desktop paradigm. However, I think that many in the community had unrealistic expectations, so some people even started to think it was vaporware, like in some comments in the aforementioned article.
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I'll say it again, people had unrealistic expectations. KDE 4 is a big step ahead than previous versions, and first of all a new **foundation** was needed. A large part of the improvements is under the hood (think about Solid or Phonon, for example). Plasma, as far as I can see, was not immune from that. Solid bases had to be built before moving forward. Thanks to that paradigm, there are already interesting results such [as the new krunner](http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2007/02/oxygen-renaming-krunner-fun.html). But there's still (according to a glance on the [KDE Techbase](http://techbase.kde.org)) a lot of work on the user-invisible parts to be done.
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That's why I don't understand all the negativity, especially because it's not even remotely constructive. Pushing your expectations on someone else is a sign of rudeness, especially since you know that those people are already working very hard (look up the commit digest, ignorance is not an excuse). Also because KDE 4 is **not out yet** and it's not finished.
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And I have to point out it's not just a problem with Plasma. When [Dolphin](http://enzosworld.gmxhome.de/) was [announced as the default file manager](http://dot.kde.org/1172721427/) (even though Konqueror is not going away), there was an unjustified outrage. Calm down, people. If you don't like something, if you can't contribute at least be constructive about it.
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