Review Request: include KolorManager in kdegraphics

[Daniel Nicoletti]

>Like I also help with Wicd support in KDE, Kopete, and other areas of interests for KDE users. I do not use Wicd, but I help KDE users of Wicd even before I was the Network Management maintainer. By the way, I am not driven by FDO interests. We are using upower/udisks because there is no other choice in Linux, hal is unmaintained as you probably know. That is why I think we should have a community to maintain the software we depend upon.

Right so which community you are talking about, because
Kai likes KDE, it seems that you are putting FDO/Gnome as things we should
get away, instead of actually looking at how maintainable these two things are
and yet share code which is really important.

>> First you need to build the software or use the packaged version, see how
>> things work, now I started a replacement for system-config-printer because
>> it has authentication problems and is written in python. when I go to
>> Oyranos I found a bunch of tech I don't like, not just I don't like but
>> many developers don't, so who will maintain those technologies if few
>> people like/use it?
> 
>That's too personal oppinion and you sound like nobody likes oyranos.

It's a personal opinion indeed but this doesn't mean nobody likes Oyranos,
it simply means that looking at the code there won't be much devs willing
to maintain that. The deps speak for themselves. 


>> I don't want to kill Oyranos but I do think the choices based on wrong use
>> cases might lead to an end, a good project done with a wrong design won't
>> succeed. Take smart for example, PackageKit in a few years was able to do
>> what they tried for many years, and stop saying that Gnome or Red Hat is
>> pushing it, you can have Gnome without it, FDO also plays by it's own
>> rules, let's focus on what really matters which is the code. No user will
>> help you maintain a line of code, they will use what we best choose to
>> them.
> 
>If it is about Gnome without colord I am not sure if that is possible, anyway, why would they patch cups to add support to colord if it is not going to be used in the desktops?

Gnome works pretty much the same way as KDE we have modules, so the do,
you can just remove/disable and Gnome will run without it, but why remove
a cool feature? It's non sense, it's obvious that every distro would push because
they want the missing feature, if Oyranos was there first maybe colord didn't had
to exist.


>I have never used PackageKit and said nothing about it. Are you talking about PakcageKit or colord here? Users can help with patches from time to time, that is important, and I was only a Knetworkmanager user before I started to contribute. Your statement is completely wrong in an opensource world.


You don't get it, I'm giving an example of how good projects dies because
from a technical point of view they become unmaintainable.
Sure, pretty much everyone is first an user then a developer but this doesn't mean
you can expect from users of a software to maintain that, otherwise most of these
projects wouldn't go into an end.