Totally unsubstantiated claims. And FYI, porting something from Qt3 to Qt4 is not just a matter of switching libraries; painting among other things has to be done in a different way. This is one of the reasons why Plasma was written from scratch instead of porting Kicker in the first place.

Surely the easiest way to explain it is that it's the same as sending a letter. Once you've put it through the slot, it's on its way - it can't be pulled back.

* you can rubber band in the file manager
* weather works just fine with European cities. i live in one, so i know.
* graphics glitches are usually driver related, but we've also fixed a lot of issues (small and large) in the least couple of years
* creating a launcher -> drag it from the file manager, the launcher, from a search in krunner, ... yeah, not hard.

i realize that reality often does not come into play much when people create and then post again and again these kinds of lists. really it comes down to your last point, doesn't it: you have a highly personal preference for 3.5 (which is fine) and you work backwards from that to justify it. your points, however, are outdated or were never correct.

but that's alright. one can't please everyone all the time, of course. we do have many users who are quite happy, and both sides of that (number of users and average satisfaction) appears to be growing with each release. perhaps not amazingly, it is those people, not those who generate lists for re-posting on every article they can find, who get developer focus.

Good lord. "Your CDFs" - really? Or do they actually belong to Wolfram?

Elngish, of course.

Nearly $500, and they still can't manage to put a locking tab protector on it.

You would probably be denied your insurance claim at the very least. It might not be liability, but it might at least be be "contributory negligence".

(IANAL, etc.)

Neither was Dr. Sbaitso - it was really just a simple Eliza-style program. The fun part was the text-to-speech.