Suggestion for futur of KDE

[Jos Poortvliet]

On Monday 20 December 2010 19:46:30 alpha_one_x86 wrote:
> Hello, some suggestion to futur of KDE:
> - More cooperation with other desktop (Gnome, GTK+ application, ...) to:
>   - When full screen application crash it resume right resolution
>   - Overwrite copy handler of all explorer
>   - when application crash have on choice debugger (kde debugger, ...) to
> tell error message to the user, not keep the user with dirty close window
> without message - Unique file dialog to prompt where open/save file
> - KDE part:
>   - No more application but better quality (more intuitive, more stable,
> more compatible) like gimp, chrome, ... some major application of the main
> stream user is in GTK under linux - More effort for the multiplatform
> (windows and mac)
>   - Less disk access to have more performance on old hardware
>   - Instant boot (1s from kdm to plasma)
>   - Have better tool to do administrative task (hardware manager, network
> interface, bluetooth, wifi, boot manager, partition ...) - Better
> reactivity (because some user professionnal prefer windows clean to KDE
> because KDE is no too reactivly) - More simply and efficiency interface
> like Mac
>   - More performance with less hdd access (I have see file access when
> update widget when oxygen then is used, same when write text I freeze when
> hdd crash) - Better hdd access (file copy is very more quicker under
> windows) - More stability because some semi-pro user tell to my lot of bug
> uncorrected since lot of time - Less library to base system to prevent
> slow down if lib is slow (hal), and prefer direct system call where lib is
> linked but use only <5%

Ok, more work. Sure, we can do all that.

I like the more cooperation - and multi-platform efforts. However, while we 
weren't clear about that in our announcement, just stating what extra we need 
to do isn't enough for me. Focus is also about where you shouldn't go. And 
ideas on how to do that in a community.

Moreover, vision should be ambitious - yet have some realism. Our long-term 
goals - create something so compelling it can overtake windows - should be the 
focus, not a few incremental improvements (no matter how important).

Thoughts?

I can post the results of a short discussion on this (what exactly do we 
expect) as reply to the announcement so ppl have a heads-up ;-)
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