Agreed (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-21 14:32 (#2SQ3) A bad feeling indeed. This cursed trend of "designers" making every feature hidden and nearly unavailable has got to stop. It's as if the standard system interface for everything has become a single button reading "Click Here, Citizen". It's despicable.The thing that really worries me is that KDE people are responsible for OwnCloud, and OwnCloud is a TERRIBLY written piece of software, barely functional, slow, and buggy as a roach motel, at least historically. Re: Agreed (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-09-22 15:25 (#2SS4) Interesting - I hadn't realized who was behind Owncloud. That makes me look at it a bit more circumspect, though. Isn't the joke that the Gnome team is trying to reduce the entire interface down to one single button, and then disactivating the button by default because it confuses the users?This is just a blog post, OK, but here's my warning to the devs at KDE: I use KDE because I like configurability and tweakability, and I'm more than intelligent enough to handle the system's supposed "complexity" all by myself. I'm a grown-up, in fact. Take away the tweakability and I stop using KDE, as simple as that. Concentrate your effort on promoting and creating better quality apps instead, and fix bugs, and reduce the resource requirements by making the code more efficient. Those are big challenges, obviously - not nearly as fun as pissing around with some widgets and color schemes in this endless masturbation cycle called UI development.
Re: Agreed (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-09-22 15:25 (#2SS4) Interesting - I hadn't realized who was behind Owncloud. That makes me look at it a bit more circumspect, though. Isn't the joke that the Gnome team is trying to reduce the entire interface down to one single button, and then disactivating the button by default because it confuses the users?This is just a blog post, OK, but here's my warning to the devs at KDE: I use KDE because I like configurability and tweakability, and I'm more than intelligent enough to handle the system's supposed "complexity" all by myself. I'm a grown-up, in fact. Take away the tweakability and I stop using KDE, as simple as that. Concentrate your effort on promoting and creating better quality apps instead, and fix bugs, and reduce the resource requirements by making the code more efficient. Those are big challenges, obviously - not nearly as fun as pissing around with some widgets and color schemes in this endless masturbation cycle called UI development.