People behind KDE: Jono Bacon

Monday, 12 February 2001  |  Inorog

Welcome to your weekly tour of the KDE people gallery. This time, Jono Bacon answers Tink's questions. A student, a writer, a guitar player and a KDE developer, Jono acknowledges to have come to KDE by necessity and to have stayed by love. Visit Tink's talk lounge for other great interviews.

Comments:

Re: People behind KDE: Jono Bacon - Eric Veltman - 2001-02-12

Jono Bacon wrote : >> I would love to see a decent graphical >> installation system similer to Installshield. One small comment on the InstallShield part. Linux is ahead of the competition in the packaging and installation area. The only decent part of InstallShield and other Windows based packaging software is the GUI the user gets during installation. So if anyone decides to make something which looks like InstallShield, please make the internals such way that it uses RPM or the Debian counterpart. Best regards, Eric

Re: People behind KDE: Jono Bacon - juan - 2001-02-15

I just recomend, even when people love X windows to port Qt to Super VGA libs so we don't have to suffer the pain.

Re: People behind KDE: Jono Bacon - Carbon - 2001-02-12

There are two projects like this, kinst, which is coming along nicely, and Inca, which I think was cancelled.

Re: People behind KDE: Jono Bacon - its me again - 2001-02-12

You have to differentiate: There is room for: -A KDE installer -The KDE installer While the former would be an answer to installshield, the latter is needed to tackle the installation of kde itself. but i think both things are being worked on right now, and I'm really looking forward to these, since I oftentimes have problems with installing software on linux.

Re: People behind KDE: Jono Bacon - Jono Bacon - 2001-02-12

When I said about an installerI meant an installer for packages such as RPM's and DEB's. I would love to se a GUI installer, and I feel it would make the usof UNIX/Linux for new users easier. Although there is KInst, I am not sure if the project is still running. If not, would the author like to open it up for another developer?

Re: People behind KDE: Jono Bacon - dent - 2001-02-12

loki has made its game installer availlable<br> it s xml based , works without X also and is free and customizable:<br> <a href="http://www.lokigames.com/development/">here</a><br> it just uses gtk ;)

Re: People behind KDE: Jono Bacon - reihal - 2001-02-12

An installer is in the works. It uses Qt ;-)

Re: People behind KDE: Jono Bacon - Chris Bordeman - 2001-02-13

So then Qt is statically linked into the setup program so this can handle installing Qt as well, right? Will this give the option to install qt-copy so we can get cool stuff like AA or Alpha in X? And why doesn't multimedia go into the developer's install? I assume most developers want to access multimedia in their apps! Maybe this should be an option or a checkmark under the developers radio button...

Re: People behind KDE: Jono Bacon - Chris Bordeman - 2001-02-13

Also, will this include KDE Studio as well as KDevelop?

Re: People behind KDE: Jono Bacon - well.. - 2001-02-13

ill bet 99.9% of everybody will choose to install everything, not a stupid cheesy "profile" Jason

Re: People behind KDE: Jono Bacon - Jason Katz-Brown - 2001-02-12

Thank u Jono for all of ur hard work! You and all the KDE developers are great and set a super example.. and help peps follow that example. Jason * RPN kalculator for kde: <a href="http://katzbrown.com/krpn-0.1.tar.gz">katzbrown.com/krpn-0.1.tar.gz</a> * is wildfox ever going to be interviewed?

Re: People behind KDE: Jono Bacon - reihal - 2001-02-12

Is mosfet going to be interviewed?

Re: People behind KDE: Jono Bacon - stephan - 2001-02-13

you should really interview WildFox.

Re: People behind KDE: Jono Bacon - Tink - 2001-02-14

Send me Wildfox bio and I'll think about it :-) I can be braggged with boxes of Swiss or Austrian chocolate and bottles of French red wine ;-) -- Tink

Re: People behind KDE: Jono Bacon - Tink - 2001-02-14

Mosfet has agreed to do the interview about 4 months ago. Unfortunately he still hasn't send in his answers. I think he just to busy coding and doesn't want you to know who he really is, maybe he has some kind of secret life ;-)) You could all email him and beg him to send in his answers, maybe that'll work. I tried doing that but had no luck whatsoever. -- Tink

Re: People behind KDE: Jono Bacon - Roberto Alsina - 2001-02-15

Indeed mosfet has a secret life. If only you had seen THAT picture! What the heck, interview me, nobody remembers me, I do nothing anymore, but I promise strange answers ;-)

Re: People behind KDE: Jono Bacon - Jono Bacon - 2001-02-16

I remember the might ralsina. ;--P

Re: People behind KDE: Jono Bacon - Nikolas Zimmermann - 2001-02-14

Hey Tink, born 15.03.1986 death hope in > 70 years :) That's it ;)

Re: People behind KDE: Jono Bacon - Jason Katz-Brown - 2001-02-18

haha wildfox :P