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Re: wow
by hmmm on Friday 02/May/2008, @01:02
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See, I understand that it might disturb you as a concept, but ignorance is not a point of view.
- The rewrite of plasma was planned from the start to happen upon the release of Qt 4.4.
- Aaron, being the maintainer of kicker and co. said it was a nightmare. And he is a pretty smart guy. If he says: "this must be replaced by something new and sensible", odds are, he is right. Also, there are _now_ way more devs on plasma than there ever were on the old shell. Can you guess why? Oh, no, you can't because in your vision of the "right" universe, we would have no more devs and a half-working shell and a depressed and frustrated Aaron. IRL, you are a PHB, right?
- It is not about having a widget system, it is about having a general, all-encompassing widget system which builds upon all the other widget systems. And the design of which also allows, as a side effect, the rebuilding of a desktop shell. And you know what, they are pretty much there.
- No complaints are legitimate here, none, never. Unless you are a dev. You might state that you are unhappy, you might voice opinion, but to complain, you have no rights.
- This is free software, this is not Apple inc. where all the mishaps and difficulties of development are hidden from the customer's view, you get to see them, people debate in the open about problems and difficulties. This is how you get better software in the end. Thinking of free software as a product gives you wrong ideas. It has no products, just projects that at some points become better than products. |
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