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  Mosfet Contributes Code to KDE (Again)
Graphics and Art Posted by Dre on Sunday 30/Dec/2001, @23:34
from the one-big-happy-family dept.
Many in the KDE community are aware of some rocky history between KDE hacker Mosfet and other KDE developers. Fortunately, it looks like things have taken a great turn for the better: Mosfet wrote in to tell us that "I've decided to donate 20 effects I ported to KDE/Qt for PixiePlus to KDE3". Waldo Bastian promptly added them to CVS. The new effects include normalize, equalize, solarize, threshold, emboss, despeckle, charcoal, rotate, sample, addNoise, blur, edge, implode, oil paint, sharpen, spread, shade, swirl, wave, and contrastHSV. All will be available under a BSD-type license in the KImageEffect class in kdelibs. According to Mosfet, these effects will be useful not only for image viewers and editors, but also for things like style engines. Except for the simple rotate, Mosfet ported the effects from ImageMagick to work directly on QImages and Qt scanlines. Nice job, Mosfet! (For those who have not yet heard the news, PixiePlus is the successor to Pixie; more information is available here.)


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Thumbnail browser
by Benjamin C Meyer on Monday 31/Dec/2001, @01:17
Any posiblity of getting the fast thumbnail browser into konq? Speaking of does gnome use .pics also now?

-Ben
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Menu Transparency
by dr88dr88 on Monday 31/Dec/2001, @01:34
Menu Transparency support is in KDE3 CVS. And its finally the real XRender one!
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Mosfet All Star
by anonymous on Monday 31/Dec/2001, @01:47
I think Mosfet gets too much attention/publicity compared to others hard-working KDE developers.
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Sweet
by Dan on Monday 31/Dec/2001, @03:07
I don't think it takes much brains to realize this is pretty nice of Mosfet. Thanks man.

Dan
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Thanks Mosfet
by Craig on Monday 31/Dec/2001, @08:34
Thanks a lot Mosfet this is very cool of you.

Craig
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Great Xmas Gift!
by KDE User on Monday 31/Dec/2001, @10:10
Thanks Mosfet! We love you.
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Slideshow editor
by Rob on Monday 31/Dec/2001, @11:01
All the Linux graphics programs I've seen make it a pain to initialize a slideshow from 'all the files in a directory'.

This very nice feature is the way irfanview (windows only, though) works by default. Open any image, and you can use the spacebar/backspace keys to sequence through the directory. Or open a thumbnail window and click the thumbs to seed the image window, after which the spacebar/backspace trick continues to work.

The biggest pain is using Konqueror to view images. The thumbnail listing isn't TOO slow (once you've got .pics set up), but clicking on a thumbnail to 'open' it means that you need to regenerate the thumbnail list when you close it.

Which brings me to my Konqueror complaint... Why must all the 'open' actions default to an embedded KPart? I find myself right-clicking all the time to avoid this. Is this configurable? Bye MIME type?

Sorry to sound so bitchy. Just some suggestions..
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Mosfet's _the_ New year Gift :)
by Asif Ali Rizwaan on Monday 31/Dec/2001, @13:11
First a Very Happy and Bugfree, Stable, and i18n_ed New year to you all :)

Welcome Mosfet, I know you were not gone from KDE but just took a break; like every developer you are also kept at high esteem by the users. Thanks.
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Disappointed to see this...
by Bill Soudan on Tuesday 01/Jan/2002, @18:14
I'm very disappointed to see this on the dot. I'm hoping the only reason this was posted is for lack of better news. This story is really quite thin, at best it's a quickie - don't people contribute code all the time? Should every new contribution be accompained by a dot story? My gut feeling is no, of course not, then the dot would be kde-cvs. It seems to me the case here is that because it came from Mosfet, it's news, and that's very sad to me.

He's a good coder and has made very worthwhile contributions to KDE, I don't disagree. I'll even be more than happy to say that I'm glad you're making contributions again, Mosfet.

However, his contributions are certainly no different than any of the other MANY individuals who dedicate their time and energy to the project. I'm much more interested to read Tink's excellent 'People of KDE' series about the contributors who you DON'T hear about, you know, the ones who aren't in the news all the time because they are mature adults. Mosfet has long since had his fair share of KDE publicity.

This whole Mosfet-KDE thing is just turning into an endless soap opera, and I honestly feel keeping it alive is bad for the dot and the KDE project. I think the risks (i.e. pissing off other contributors who feel slighted because Mosfet gets a lot of very undeserved attention, tainting KDE's reputation as well as OSS as a whole with the negative publicity) far outweigh any benefits (i.e. get a news story up for more traffic, more publicity is always good). I hate to even feed into it by posting this reply, but I feel it's time to speak up so the editors hear some more opinions.

Please, please, keep the dot as clean and professional as it usually is, and stop with the Mosfet stories. If there's merit in them, fine, I'm by no means trying to say he should never be mentioned again. Instead, in the future, please use the same measure that any other story in the queue receives.

Anyway. Just MHO. Flame away, everyone, I'm *very* interested in responses.
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This is news?
by spaz on Tuesday 01/Jan/2002, @20:16
Why don't you hail all the people (hundreds or thousands) that do actual day to day work on KDE that don't have little fits and go home. Oh goody, so now we will have even more half done broken code by Mosfet in CVS... Maybe if we're lucky he'll commit something ten minutes before kde3 is released and break it.
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Jealous people
by Mosfet on Wednesday 02/Jan/2002, @05:40
While most of the comments have been quite positive, it's obvious a few people are jealous of the attention I get. News about me and what I'm doing does get carried a lot, and there is a reason for that. I write graphics code, and people have a lot of interest in that. If people didn't care about what I was doing or writing, no one would carry news about it. I could do whatever I want and people simply wouldn't care. But they do, and I thank the people who have kept track of me and lent their support.

This is certainly a worthy story. Even not considering I am a fairly visible Linux/Unix developer, the addition of 20 effects to KDE3 would be considered a good story anyways. People are always interested in new graphics stuff, and are always asking about what's going to be new in KDE3. This is good news for both programs that deal with images and widget styles, always a subject people are interested in. Add to the fact that my departure from the KDE team was widely covered and that this is an initial gesture of goodwill on my part and what I hope will be a better relationship - that's even more good news!

People complaining about posting this story are totally unjustified and I can't help thinking are full of "sour grapes". They don't think anything I do should be covered, no matter how good or cool it is. This is obvious from people like the above saying it's bad to publicize anything about me. Nevermind that it adds cool stuff for KDE and is done in the spirit of cooperation.

There is a simple solution for these people. If you don't like news about me don't read it. And be ready to not read a lot of news because I am back and working on a lot of interesting new things! ;-) If you feel some other developments should be covered, then submit those! But don't be jealous if people are interested in what I'm doing as well.
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theme code
by Johnny Andersson on Wednesday 02/Jan/2002, @09:40
Is mosfet the maintainer of the themeing parts of KDE? If so, does he still actively maintain it, and if not, is there anyone who knows the code as well as he does?

Just curious...
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K-button for Mac menu?
by PRR on Wednesday 02/Jan/2002, @12:14
Mosfet/Daniel if you're out there reading this, I just wanted to say you've done some great work so far, but I'm curious about a small project you had which involved putting the K-button dropdown menu onto the far left of the Mac-like global menu which KDE can do (sorta like where the "Apple menu" would be) ... any news on it? I've run Liquid with the Mac menu (and the default_blue.jpg wallpaper) which makes for a pretty close OSX-like desktop, but I still need to have a d@mn taskbar at the bottom in order to have a K-button menu. Having a K-button/menu at the top left in the Mac global menu in addition to all the other Mac-like stuff would be great!

(Anyone else have any thoughts to add on this?)
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egos and ids, freedom and civility...
by taint on Monday 14/Jan/2002, @01:14
For any case, Mosfet's contributions are appriciated by the community at large..

... and for that he does deserve a big thank-you. It's well earned. Thank-you Mosfet!

All the KDE developers out there should be granted a big public "Thank you", at least every other day ;)
The supporting public too! They make it possible for KDE, and OSS in general, to exist the way they do.

To all of those would like like to comment on how terrible the parent article is for existing, I must reply..

"Whatever, *Shrug*, have a nice day."

I hope Mosfet and all can appriciate this response. It is a fine one. If a person knows not their own strengths, rudeness in regard to them *will* hurt.

It is most important; terribly important in fact, that people like Mosfet, whatever history may be, contribute to efforts like KDE. It is also important that we are notified. For those of you who do not see this, I am sorry. I hope that the benefits will someday "shine light upon balding head."

I would like to relate that the precise way in which the article was written, is unfortunate.
Let the past be folks. There is no need to focus what could have been a purely cheer-worthy announcement, on Mosfets past actions.

I ask that we leave out the uncivil social commentary, and stick to what's important! The forward movment and enhancement of a great array of software.
The future will depend upon it.

It does no good to fret about such things friends.. Let us all rejoice that we now have some great filters to work with, and that one more step has been made, for all mankind. That *is* what this is all about, right?

Straight out of dict (web1913) "Men can not enjoy the rights of an uncivil and of a civil state together" - Burke

Cheers to all, good things are happening here. Myself and others look forward to more release/feature announcements from all of you, Mosfet included.

-taint
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