[Ktechlab-devel] What do you think of an open call to devs?

[Juan De Vincenzo]

Hi Alan,

I'm not sure what happened but I got your e-mail after I sent the last one.

Just a question: what KDE4 release are you currently using? And on
what distro? On a personal note, I'm running Slackware 12.2 and I've
manually built KDE 4.2 and besides the expected bugs, I haven't had
any troubles. Actually I like KDE 4 so much that my excitement was
what led me to start talking about the porting to KDE 4.

Just for reference, I'm not running any cutting edge hardware:
AMD's Athlon 64 3800+
1Gb RAM
GeForce 7900GT

I'm really sorry to hear you had all that trouble with KDE 4.

Regards,
Juan

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Alan Grimes <agrimes at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> Juan De Vincenzo wrote:
>
>> I've been thinking that maybe, a good way to obtain some extra hands
>> for the project would be with an open call for developers which could
>> be carried out on the kde-devel mailing list.
>
> What and have the developers who turned KDE4 into an unusable pile of
> bloat unleash their wrath on our nice little project?
>
> I'm not against the idea but watching my swap file fill up after
> installing 3 gb of ram on my 32-bit computer has sent me on an emergency
> shopping trip for a new window manager. Today I'm using enlightenment
> and it seems quite reasonable.
>
> =(
>
> I had heard such great things about KDE4, and thought that the much
> needed technology upgrade was going to be a good thing... But it turns
> out that they had gone far beyond a simple technology bump and had out
> done Microsoft in terms of stupid features and shameless bloat. Its as
> if they thought it was actually worth all my CPU cycles and all my
> memory to index the 60,000 files that have crufted up in my home
> directory over the many long years.
>
> I'm sorry but I'm pissed...
>
> I still support updating Ktechlab to KDE4/QT4 in principle, we need to
> stay compatible with the upstream libraries and technologies. At the
> same time we can't ignore our primary mission which is to provide
> useful, efficient, and well written software. KDE3 was really really
> kick-ass. It was fairly lean, and its software set the standard in
> usability on the unix platform. I have no idea how they could have gone
> so wrong. =(
>
> I can only hope that now KDE4 is out the door and is starting to be
> widely deployed, these problems will start affecting more people and
> things will improve back to what we're accustomed to.
>
>
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