Suggestion for futur of KDE

[Frank Karlitschek]

I agree. :-)

But let´s wait for the other proposals and pick the best ones.


Cheers
Frank


On 20.12.2010, at 22:31, Jos Poortvliet wrote:

> 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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