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So much for the "interview"
by Me on Monday 10/Jul/2006, @18:26

Not to be too harsh, but could we get a real interview?

I mean, look at these answers:

What are you most looking forward to about the 4.0 release?

HJ: A completely new and exciting user experience.

Do you plan any involvement in the beta/RC releases of the 4.0 release?

HJ: We hope so. We will do more bugfixes for KDE 4.

Any other plans for your distro in the future?

HJ: We have plans to implement some new features for the KDE 4.0 series, so we have some new ideas.

Well, what are these new features? What is your internal development structure like? Is the current internationalization provided by KDE good-enough? Do you contribute your own i18n efforts back?

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Re: So much for the "interview"
by Wade on Monday 10/Jul/2006, @18:55

Point well taken.

Interviewees are in fact prompted to be verbose during the interview process.

Please keep in mind that I purposefully ask similar questions to allow the personalities of the interviewees and their respective distros to show.

Language barriers and fluency may vary between distros and regions. Also culturally, some interviewees may be more gregarious and some more guarded.

Finally, Red Flag is a new distro that we're trying to establish a better relationship with, and we're just laying the foundation now. This interview is just one element of this process; don't expect Red Flag to tell their life story - we're just getting to know each other. :)

But many have asked to learn more about Red Flag, as they're incredibly prominent in a flourishing region. Rumor has it :) that they will be in attendance at aKademy, so if you're there, you have every chance to learn more and introduce yourself.

Thanks for the feedback. With some of the next distros in line for this interview series, you may see some more detailed answers to your liking.

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Re: So much for the "interview"
by AC on Monday 10/Jul/2006, @19:14

It's like talking to a joker :( This joker's depth of knowledge in Linux/KDE seems very very shallow.

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Re: So much for the "interview"
by Wade on Monday 10/Jul/2006, @20:09

Huang JianZhong is a very approachable person. If people have specific technical questions to ask about Red Flag, we can certainly ask here in the forum, or we can alternatively schedule a follow-up technical interview.

Like 'Ask Slashdot' style - what do people want to know? For example, some i18n questions were asked above.

Depending on question universality or applicability, a technical section can be added to my interviews. Although these *are* purposefully meant to be a bit more introductory and light-hearted. Maybe we'll just end up posting all their code to satisfy everyone. :)

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Re: So much for the "interview"
by gerd on Tuesday 11/Jul/2006, @05:41

I am intrrested whether there is a demand for Linux internet cafe solutions in China and what software for administration they would recommend.

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Re: So much for the "interview"
by cjacker on Monday 10/Jul/2006, @19:55

We are trying.

As you know, there is some difficult to communicate between us, for example, the different language, the different custom.

As in DAM2 meeting said, We need change this。

about new features, for example, we are developing a Network Management Framework based on kde(not similar with NetworkManager), Tag support for Konqueror File Management, A set of config tools under Kcontrol framework, also some gui improvement(for example, I post something in kde-look.org and kde-apps.org)

at first, I think we need know each other.

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Re: So much for the "interview"
by cjacker on Monday 10/Jul/2006, @20:09

and,

XGL kwin integration for (kde-3.5.x)

A ShareDaemon(based on dbus) and KDE gui support for easy shareing with folders and printers.

Better Chinese support for Qt4 (for example bold chinese font, underline issue), after Freetype-2.1.10, there is FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden Api, But it can not works very well with non-antialias Chinese font (cario and libXft also had these problems). So here we need some works.

Kaffeine javascript interface for embeded in konqueror.

......

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Re: So much for the "interview"
by cjacker on Monday 10/Jul/2006, @20:18

also, we had done something with gecko engine and konqueror integration.

With qt glib main event loop patch, We can merge gtk and qt widget together, with xembed protocol, we can use gtk widget directly in a qt form.

so we write a kpart named Kmozpart based on gecko engine and make it works with Konqueor.

But it died, because KDE 4 will release this year, I think based on kde4 is a better choice.

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Re: So much for the "interview"
by Waldo Bastian on Monday 10/Jul/2006, @22:42

Thank you Huang JianZhong, it's great to hear more about what Red Flag is doing with KDE. I look forward to meet you later this year in Dublin at aKademy.

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File sharing with KIO-FUSE
by Vlad on Tuesday 11/Jul/2006, @07:33

> A ShareDaemon(based on dbus) and KDE gui
> support for easy shareing with folders

Have you considered basing the file-sharing solution on KIO-FUSE?

http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KIO+Fuse+Gateway
http://fuse.sourceforge.net/

Here are some details about the benefits of using FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace):

http://rlove.org/talks/guadec_rlove_fuse_2006.odp
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/portland/2006-July/000655.html

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Re: So much for the "interview"
by MamiyaOtaru on Monday 10/Jul/2006, @21:57

XGL-Kwin would be great, is there somewhere we can check to keep track of progress?

A distro that ships so many copies could be a great source of new features and testing. I'd also be excited if a bit of manpower could be thrown at some of the more popular (unpopular?) bugs in KDE's bugzilla.

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Re: So much for the "interview"
by Ian Monroe on Tuesday 11/Jul/2006, @12:23

You might consider checking out Codeine as a simple alternative to Kaffeine, it also has a KPart. http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=17161

Its great to hear about all the great work your doing. I would be very interested in check out kwin+XGL. :)

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Re: So much for the "interview"
by James Su on Friday 14/Jul/2006, @01:15

Everthing you mentioned are worthless until they are fully contributed back to community.

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Re: So much for the "interview"
by Jonathan Dietrich on Tuesday 11/Jul/2006, @05:26

"Tag support for Konqueror File Management"
sweet! sounds like they may be working on one of my wish list items [ http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113636 ]. I hope this finds its way back to core.

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Re: So much for the "interview"
by James Richard Tyrer on Tuesday 11/Jul/2006, @00:35

Become informed culture wise.

Some stereotypes are true. Asians are compulsively polite.

Absolutely nothing wrong with that, it is just their culture and we should understand it.

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