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On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:35:55 +0000 (UTC), James wrote: |
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> > > Note, I've use a myriad of qt |
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> > > based open source and commercial products on embedded systems. |
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> > > Those efforts do not mirror the "attide" of the KDE camp, you |
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> > > espouse so well. |
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> > I've no idea what you are trying to say here. |
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> Sure you do, |
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Really, it didn't parse sensibly for me. |
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> but I'll be simple here. KDE is built on QT. I have |
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> experince with QT and dozens of embedded products that use QT. None of |
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> those products resemble any sort of attitude, like KDE does. The |
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> bloated, poorly documented latest features, lets force it on the entire |
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> userbase by default, mentality does not exist in any of the QT based |
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> products I've been involed in. KDE's problems are the result of poor |
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> decisions made unilaterally by the KDE leadership, imho. |
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That makes sense. I still maintain that KDE does not force configuration |
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changes on existing systems, ~/.kde4 trumps anything installed into /usr. |
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However, I do agree with you about KDE's leadership and user relations. |
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In many ways they are their own worst enemies. What's the point in |
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writing good software then leaving it with a crap set of defaults so |
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people have to tweak it to make it decent. It's like they want to leave |
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all that mundane stuff to the distros, which doesn't work with Gentoo's |
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policy of sticking close to upstream defaults. |
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> > Like I said, but you seemed to ignore, run Konsole on LXDE to get all |
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> > you need. I've found Konsole to be one of the best terminals out |
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> > there, irrespective of whether you use KDE or not, although |
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> > Terminology does look interesting. |
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> The simple fact is I do not need a desktop enviroment that competes |
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> with the applications I choose and set up to be flashy and featurerich. |
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> That function is best left to the applications themselves, imho. |
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Fair enough, that's your choice. Personally, I think that a desktop |
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environment, not necessarily KDE, that provide good interoperation |
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between applications is important. I rarely single task, which is why I |
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love terminal tabs and screen :) |
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> Also, I disagree; Konsole is wonderful, but I do not want anything with |
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> "K" in it. |
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I take it you compile your own ernel then :) |
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Neil Bothwick |
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I thought the 10 commandments were multiple choice. |