Glad to hear things are still moving along and there are interesting things on the horizon.
I was a longtime KDE user until a couple years ago when I switched to Awesome and a desktop-environment-less desktop (i.e, neither Gnome, Unity, XFCE...).
I felt I was in the minority for liking KDE 3.0 (the infamous "public beta" release), and the following iterations.
Plasma wasn't useful to me (as a coder, I like to have and editor and a shell occupying as much of my screen as possible), but I appreciated the work that went into it.
I remember seeing once that KDE had a bad reputation of working around platform problems rather than tackling them head-on, unlike Gnome. As a result, they were constantly playing catch-up with the system integration that Gnome had built. I particularly remember the Network-Manager applet being bad enough that I just used the Gnome one.
I was a longtime KDE user until a couple years ago when I switched to Awesome and a desktop-environment-less desktop (i.e, neither Gnome, Unity, XFCE...).
I felt I was in the minority for liking KDE 3.0 (the infamous "public beta" release), and the following iterations.
Plasma wasn't useful to me (as a coder, I like to have and editor and a shell occupying as much of my screen as possible), but I appreciated the work that went into it.
I remember seeing once that KDE had a bad reputation of working around platform problems rather than tackling them head-on, unlike Gnome. As a result, they were constantly playing catch-up with the system integration that Gnome had built. I particularly remember the Network-Manager applet being bad enough that I just used the Gnome one.
Nevertheless, keep up the good work KDE!