Mosfet Contributes Code to KDE (Again)

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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by Naja (not verified)

My dear,

We are in a world of cruelty. People just do not want to see other people laughing, or happy so they try by all possible meansto make you sad. You will see that when you do something good they will try to make you unsure. Also you will see that sometimes they will even try to blame ysou or even provoke you. The best thing is to ignore them or if possible ask them if you have done something wrong.

Also try to not allow yourself to be overcome that menas live further and do not think much about it although it is difficult, but if you are innerly strong you can definitely overcome it.

It is very difficult to deal with jealous people for they only see darknes in others and they are people who are very pessimistic. Most of the time you can recognise them, by the faces they make, or the comments they say. You will see that when you announce your success, they will never congratulate you or even when they do they will do it in a provocative manner. Enjoy the fact that you have given them a reason to talk about you. LOL

Just be nice to them and kind and friendly and you heap coals on their heads. You let them feel bad for their judgment of you. In fact, you go out of your way to tell them what nice features they have and compliment them on how they dress or the way they look. All they are looking for is approval.

They will start picking up faults in you, but just pray to God the lmigthy and like I say learn to resist it.

I hope that helps, otherwise you can send me an email.

[email protected]

by humble (not verified)

Thanks alot NAJA I Appreciate what you said very much.THANKS!!!!!!

by humble (not verified)

Thanks alot NAJA I Appreciate what you said very much.THANKS!!!!!!

by Jenny (not verified)

Hi. I don't understand what you are saying. Will you please explain further?

Thank you!

by Jenny (not verified)

Hi. I don't understand what you are saying. Will you please explain further?

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by Jenny (not verified)

Hi. I don't understand what you are saying. Will you please explain further?

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by Jenny (not verified)

Hi. I don't understand what you are saying. Will you please explain further?

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by Ashley (not verified)

Ok so i'm in middle school and people are really jealous of me, it hurts. The whole year in 7th grade people brought me down so hard i had no friends at all.
I have this small group but they aren't so strong and don't stand up for me as much.. I'm really smart.. Not to mention pretty.. And I'm really positive and I'm nice to everyone and I don't talk bad about ANYONE. My life sucks right now. I don't know what to do...
And the haters got everyone involoved on 'hating me' and it really sucks.. I'm scared to go to 8th grade now.
I hate facing the torture.

by S Lane (not verified)

Forget about them once you graduate you should leave any never talk to them again they're just jealous of your shining star and wish they could be you. I wouldn't worry about it there is nothing in life to be afraid of. You will see one day that they are just trying to bring you down because they know they can never be what you can be. Just tough through it high school will be over before you know it. I'm 27 now and time has flown by it feels like just yesterday I was in high school and that was almost 10 years ago. You'll realize that too some day. Just be tough and continue to be your self.

by S Lane (not verified)

The reason your small group doesn't stand up for you so much is probably because you are the leader of the group and are the strong one who stand up for them. Continue to protect your group of friends even though they don't seem to protect you they are experiencing the same problems as you and look up to you as they know you are a good person and have much to learn from you... Don't be persuaded by the negative continue to be positive no matter how hard it may be...

by Ace (not verified)

Hey Angela.

You know, for being a guy, I have alot, I mean," alot', of jealousy around myself 24/7. One thing is true, the majority basically is just inconceided by other people whom are better than them in one way or another. But one thing that kills me is that they just purely hate me for the whole package. See I have always and am forever will be a very sincere and loyal person towards others. I was bullied quite alot,too much to even count,in my earlier years up until I was an early teen about 14. For being a guy it does happen, but too much to endure, at the age of 15 I started homeschooling,but I had big scars of the past/school/etc. And at the same time my grandmother my most favorite person had a massive stroke. So being at the age of 14 for me was quite the pain, plus other problems. My father was a bodybuilder at the time, he knew what I was going through. Oneday he introduced to bodybuilding, there my transformation began, 5 years I changed so much,not one old person can recognize me. But the tables turned once again, instead of bullying,random guys/girls/even couples will try to fight with me just to see how,"strong", I am plus yell a rude comment my way like today and everyother day. I cannot even make any friends because the trned it still the same with these maniacs. Fake and just simple insecure, can't they think beyond themselves, I mean if they really want to become better in life then they have to work very hard to aquire/attain it. Nothing was just/handed/ over to me, I had to work very very very hard to get where I am today. They need to learn that simple saying nothing is handed over to you just like that, if wishes were horses beggers would be riding them. I mind my buisness, eather they need to get a life, or work hard to attain these type of things, like bodybuilding or other things.

by S Lane (not verified)

What you said is so true and represents someone I was very faithfull loyal and trusting of I'm a protector type personality and did many things to protect this person yet this person kept spreading lies about me and put me down to other people to no degree even though I would continually do things better than them and would not rub it in their face but just trying to help. The more I helped the more it made them do these things to me. It was very hurtful to me because it's hard to grasp that someone could be so diabolical, decietfull, dishonest, backstabbing when all you have ever done is help them.

I figured out they are a tweaker, twak, coke head, fake mofo, if you ever suspect someone you know is a tweaker or coke head they probably are get as far away from them as possible they have destroyed their moral fiber and are lost human beings don't let them bring your shining star down... Leave them and don't look back they are a sorry excuse for a human being. Who will continue trying to mainpulate you to get what they want out of you, yet you mean absolutely nothing to them. Stop listeing to their word and look at their actions you will realize right away that they are a piece of ****. Coke heads are great actors and will lie to the very end.

by dj (not verified)

Yeah, I understand this issue very well. There are a few jealous people in my family. These people are angry at the fact that my mother and her sister have accomplished something with their lives. They know that we have money and act as if were are close as a family. I hear what they say behind our backs.

by dj (not verified)

Yeah, I understand this issue very well. There are a few jealous people in my family. These people are angry at the fact that my mother and her sister have accomplished something with their lives. They know that we have money and act as if were are close as a family. I hear what they say behind our backs.

by B. Allen (not verified)

I am one of seven sibliing. Only one out of the family completed college. I support my family very much. However, I am the youngest. Not mention I paid my own way through college, working full time and attend college at night. graduated as Register Nurse. When conversing on phone with one sister everything is fine. Meet in public with other family members i am ignored. However, another sister does not talk to me at all. She always wanted to be the best in the family. We all have respected that.regardless of their behavior i still respect them. But, I wonder why they behave the way they do. They talk about me behind my back to other family and friends. I lose my older sister 10yrs ago. She had a home. It was not paid off when she passed away. So, We assumed the mortgage. I am paiding that mortgage alone right now. Often ask for assistant, but no one helps. With that I still support my family. I feel lots of jealous. Do you think it could a possiblity?

by Tory Everitt (not verified)

It sounds to me that your family is jealous of you.You are doing really well for your self.I have a sister that is jealous of me to.She likes to start trouble for me,like:she will tell a lie to my brother about me,or she will try to do something else.She is really jealous of me because I have nicer things than she does.I have my own place,She lives with my grandmother,her husband,and aunt.All she does is take my grandmothers money and spend it on stuff she dont need like DVDS.She would have nice things to if she wouldnt spend money foolishly.Thats not my fault.I only bother because of my grandmother, if it wouldnt be for my grandmother,I wouldnt bother her her at all.Thats the truth!

by ajay chandarana (not verified)

this is the epitomy of jealousy. every1 your kid brother your dear mother, your bastard father turns on you like a pack of hounds, and says: u little boy r mental. my worst nightmare. instead of live and let live, what do they do? the rascals lock me up in a psychisatric ward, dope me up and induce me 2 commit suicide. but how often does that turn out successful? if there was GOD, he would answer our prayers, instead we are cursed with psychiatrists asking do u hear voices? NO! still we'll give u drugs just 2 be on the safe side. thats my tragedy. i hadn't even seen or done much of life, and i'm spasticated at 22. nowhere 2 go but a slow death. is this how value today's young generation?

by ajay chandarana (not verified)

this is the epitomy of jealousy. every1 your kid brother your dear mother, your bastard father turns on you like a pack of hounds, and says: u little boy r mental. my worst nightmare. instead of live and let live, what do they do? the rascals lock me up in a psychisatric ward, dope me up and induce me 2 commit suicide. but how often does that turn out successful? if there was GOD, he would answer our prayers, instead we are cursed with psychiatrists asking do u hear voices? NO! still we'll give u drugs just 2 be on the safe side. thats my tragedy. i hadn't even seen or done much of life, and i'm spasticated at 22. nowhere 2 go but a slow death. is this how value today's young generation?

by Rick (not verified)

I must say all of you have very interesting comments and have had extraordinary experiences. I am impressed with all of you that have held on to your dignity despite your negative feedback from others. I too have been a victim of the almighty Jealousy monster and know it's not an easy thing to fight especially when you know in your heart and soul that your not trying to hurt anyone. My family treats me like I think I am better than they are. I live clean and set standards for the way my life is led. I also set an example at work and don't make many mistakes and am criticized for thinking I am better than they are. I press on. Morals and Ethics alike I treat with high regard, don't tell me it's black when I know it is white, and don't try to shove something down my throat that I know is wrong and try to make me accept it as right because I won't do it. I don't think I am better than I others I do think I have more common sense than most but I don't treat people with disrespect however it doesn't change the way they react towards me. Killing people with kindness doesn't seem to work so I just press on. I have given the matter a lot of thought at times and the conclusion is that they want to advance to the next level as I have but they are so caught up in their world and the things in it that they can't and some won't because it's scary (a change) and that would put them in the same light as me. No one wants to be unpopular. I won't lower my standards just to fit in I refused to do it when I was an insecure teen I won't do it as a 40 yr. old adult. Stay strong to all of you persevere and just remember they live their lives and you need to live yours.

by RR (not verified)

Dude I can relate to your comments "black when it is white" and "don't shove something down my throat that I know is wrong. " Man, living a clean, good life makes all the lonely feelings go away anyways, so who cares about about trying to look "cool" like you said.

by RR (not verified)

Smart responses. I have my own experience dealing with jealousy (being the perpetrator and the victim). The short version: basically don't be mean back, but stay away from them as much as possible.

When I was a jealous, pitiful small person:
I hurt people who didn't even deserve it, but my own pettiness and ignorance made me impulsively act that way. I look back and see what were the reasons. My ex-girlfriend was a very materialistic woman who compared me to her other friend's boyfriends in terms of money,status etc and did flirt with other guys, and I think that had some aspect to it. I was also mixed in with the wrong crowd after high school (drugs, alchohol, etc), where all we did was watch tv and put each other down. Past is the past, but the smartest thing to have done would be to have left those losers, break up with that low-self esteem girlfriend (which I finally did thank God) and find positive people to show me the way. I still feel shame every time I think of the people I hurt, even those I apologized to, but realize God forgives.

Now:
Now I am doing pretty well. I know the direction to go. I cleaned up my act. Starting to get my shit together and am happy and confident. Ditched the lame GF and am having fun. Found good friends. Now I am on the other end (getting attacked) and it is not so great (and also made me realize how obnoxious I was before). Its funny because people who said jealousy can run in the family are SOOO right. My own brother takes every opportunity to mention every error, flaw, mistake and miscalculation I commit. My father is starting to belittle me and trying to make me feel stupid in our conversations. When I start to get into a negative, depressed mood, they start becoming nice and understanding again. I don't blame them because having wrestled with it myself they are in the mindset of competition, comparison, and scarcity. I guess jealous people are not bad inherently, they just have a negative perspective.

Like other people have said, its better to be forgiving and somewhat distant with these types of people. You may even have to play politics and find a good support group in your social circle if things get ugly. This world is indeed dirty. Even at my church people backstab, gossip, etc. Its human nature. When I tried to settle into a new church, these are things that helped me out that might help you too:
1) keep mouth shut about accomplishments and don't act fake or kiss ass. Most people will be happy for you but there are some who go out of their way to get a public reaction from you.
2) Have an established value system to treat others as you wish to be treated. Kind acts don't hurt. Compliment if you really mean it. Doing so will give you a basic reputation, so that when gossip starts, it is the gossiper that gets into trouble and not you.
3) Absolutely, if you feel someone does not like you from the get-go, do not try to be their friend. Ohh ho ho from my experience, this just gives them more invitation to wrong you. Just ignore them if you get a hunch. There are plenty of people who will like positive people.
4)Don't fight back eye for an eye, but don't tolerate second-class behavior like bossiness, condescending tones, lying, etc. Just walk away and ignore.
5)people who don't know you but help you anyways are usually the people you want to be friends with. And for some reason, people you admire and like somehow admire and like you too! It's weird but awesome.
6)if a person is cool to you most of the time but occasionally acts negatively toward you, just ignore that. No one is perfect right? Unless they gossiped and planned something to hurt you LOL.
7) if there is already an established group, and they are not that outreaching towards you, there might be a reason.

by t (not verified)

is there somthing I can do to make it even more uncomfortable for them!
is there any tricks of the trade
i hate those basterds

by RR (not verified)

Hmm unfortunately revenge only hurts you in the end, and gives them validation for their behavior. Ignore, avoid, or play politics and expose them. I guess if you can get solid proof of their heinous acts of hatred you can gain the upper hand. What that one poster CJ said helped me tremendously; forgiving and having compassion, but not going out of your way to be nice and expecting them to change overnight (they won't).

by AN (not verified)

there is a threshold that everyone needs to figure out for themselves... sometimes i think openly confronting the jealous behaviour is empowering and can be a positive thing. At least enough to make them back off or realize they have crossed a line. For me, it helps me regain self respect. I think that ignoring them or returning bad behaviour with kindness can be interpretted as weakness...depending on the extemity of the ignorance of the jealous person. I think confronting the situation is like shining a light on a dark heart and making them realize you won't tolerate bad behaviour. Many times this either makes them realize their own behaviour...or at least realize the limits that you will no longer tolerate. For those of you whom are persecuted by jealous people... I wish you well in resolving the problem. I also hope that your actions lead to enlightenment for both yourselves and the people that are jealous of you. I think there is a time and a place for "kicking some ass" - dispense this wisely.

by Bill Soudan (not verified)

First off, I'm not jealous at all of the attention you get. I've contributed very little around here, so you should get more attention than I. I don't really think I deserve any attention at all, in fact :)
Second, don't tell us we're unjustified to complain. We can complain all we want, that's what the comments are for, feedback. Furthermore, I think I justified my complaints rather well, in fact.

However, don't go thinking that the only reason you see yourself in the news is because you write great, relevant code. This is part of the reason, yes, and I won't argue that you shouldn't be recognized for it, because you should. It's a valuable contribution and KDE is better for your effort and code. But you're really no different than any of the other KDE volunteers who give up their time & energy for the project.

The other half of the reason you see yourself in the news is because of the rather immature games you've played with the KDE project and the other developers. I can't help but think that you're just doing them for attention and publicity. And in the process, you pissing off other KDE volunteers just like yourself and you are damaging the reputation of the KDE project as a whole. Ever hear how OSS has that reputation for unprofessionalism and childish flame wars? Well, congratulations, some of your past actions have only fed that reputation.

You need to take that into consideration when you freak about a release schedule that everyone else doesn't have a problem following or when you rant on your personal webpage about the project. You have every right to do whatever you want, yes, but your actions affect many besides yourself. As a result, you've projected two images of yourself to us: one as the very talented graphics coder, and the second as the childish primadonna programmer. The second hurts both you, the KDE project, even OSS as a whole. And I'll be happy to argue that it does more damage than your contributions do good.

There seems to be a commotion with much that you do, have you noticed that yet? Even just this simple news story causes strife. Have you also noticed that there isn't a commotion with most of the other KDE contributors? Like I said in my post, I really hate to even encourage you by making these posts, but I feel it's time to say something.

If this is truly a turnaround between you and the KDE project, then that's great, and I honestly hope that it is! I'll enjoy reading about your contributions. But if in a few months I see another soap opera story on the dot like this one (e.g. 'Mosfet quits KDE (Again)'), then I'm going to be really disappointed in both you and the dot.

by Mosfet (not verified)

Who are you again?

by Bill Soudan (not verified)

Does it make my opinion any more or less valid?

I don't have anything to hide, though, so I'm a small-time KDE contributor. I worked for quite a while on a KDE1 ICQ client (kicq and icqlib, as seen on SourceForge), made a few miscellaneous kdebase improvements here and there in CVS, and published the KDE development news for a few months after Navindra Umanee wasn't able to work on it any longer. I've watched the mailing lists for a long, long time, so I'm familiar with much of what went on there since about the KDE1.1 days. Even helped out a little when the dot first started by contributing a few stories.

I wish I could contribute more, but I unforunately don't have the time right now. Hopefully once I've graduated from school, I will.

by Mosfet (not verified)

It doesn't make your opinion any more or less valid. Everyone can have their opinion and act however they want: including me, editors on the dot, etc...

The thing is *you* feel you can dictate to the editors of the dot and to me what stories should be carried, how I should behave, and chastise everyone for posting a positive news story about me. And people call me arrogant ;-) This is common behavior among many in the Linux community: They feel they should be able to dictate their opinions to others. They feel they should be able to deem what news is appropriate, (even though this is an obviously appropriate story), how developers should behave even though they've contributed little or nothing, and what projects people should work on in their free time.

So you don't like the fact that the dot posted a story about me and how I am trying to be more positive with the KDE community. Oh well ;-) Hopefully you'll get used to it :)

by Bill Soudan (not verified)

Then why did you ask who I was, and use it to try to invalidate my argument? ('even though they've contributed little or nothing')

I hardly think I can dictate. I was expressing my opinion, and I phrased it as a request, not a command:

'...but I feel it's time to speak up so the editors hear some more opinions.'

and

'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.'

If the editors don't follow my opinions, that's fine. If I decide I don't like the dot, then I don't need to read it. But I wanted to make my opinion known because I *do* like the dot and the editors. From what I know of them, they appreciate well reasoned feedback, and that's what I was trying to provide

I also don't recall telling anyone how they should behave, nor what they should do in their free time. I even explicity said that I'd enjoy reading future articles about your contributions. Future articles about you getting into arguments with the rest of the KDE team? No, I'll be very disappointed that it happened and very disappointed in the editors for posting articles about it.

You're a very talented guy and a great programmer. Don't let negative images obscure that, because while in the meantime you may be hurting the KDE project & other volunteers, in the end you're hurting yourself most of all. You have a 'rocky history' now which you'll need to overcome before some of the KDE team is going to trust you again, and it looks as though you're headed down the right path already, which is great. I bet given some time and a lack of attitude, you'll no longer see comments like mine and the anonymous others who are upset that there's stories on the dot about you.

by Sam Kennedy (not verified)

Bill, you really seem like a dick. I love mosfet. He kicks ass. The fact of the matter is that he is more relevant than you. I don't go to bill.org to download liquid... or anything for that matter. mosfet has made a personality for himself, and if you want to accuse him of doing what he does for publicity, you should back it up with more than a loony paranoid accusation with no evidence.

by Bill Soudan (not verified)

Not even going to bother with the name calling. That's just weak.

You're right, he is more relevant than me, I've never pretended that he
wasn't. I even said I didn't feel I deserved any recognition at all.
Since we're obviously comparing though, no, you won't find Liquid on
bill.org, but you may go to both:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/kicq
http://sourceforge.net/projects/icqlib

for some KDE code that I've poured many hours into. KICQ isn't too
popular any longer, ICQ in general is falling by the wayside, but it used
to be in the KDE1 days. On SourceForge's 'Top' lists, kicq is still #16
on the 'Most Active All Time' which shows how much work we put into it and
#24 on the 'Top Forum Post Counts' which shows how much interest there is
in it.

I accused him of making noise and pulling stunts on the mailing lists
(which ultimately hurt the KDE project as a whole) for attention. Since
I've watched the mailing lists carefully for a long, long time now, I have
a good feel for how KDE contributors interact, how much work gets done,
and by whom.

While Mosfet is certainly a contributor, he's definitely not one of the
largest, yet he seems to receive the most press. I feel this is
unfortunate because one of the reasons he receives the most press is
because of what I feel are childish, attention-grabbing antics, not actual
code. I'll reiterate that he should be recognized for his worthwhile
contributions, and some of his pubilicity is definitely deserved! But
many other things he has done are not worthy of publicity, and IMHO, to
reward him for those by an article on the dot is a slap in the face to the other many hard-working KDE contributors.

As far as evidence goes, I have mailing list histories for kde-devel,
kde-core-devel, and kde-cvs to back myself up - I would be more than happy
to provide links to relevant messages if you're interested. Mail me
privately please and I will provide them, I'm not going to bother
cluttering up the board here.

I've done my research, Sam, over the long history I've had with the KDE
project. Did you do ANY on me before you made that post?

by Rumcajs (not verified)

"I'm trying to show some goodwill to the KDE core team"
"story about me and how I am trying to be more positive with the KDE community"
"this is an initial gesture of goodwill on my part and what I hope will be a better relationship"

Hey Bill, get out ! Don't you see that Mosfet just gives a KDE community a one more chance ! If Mosfet leaves and KDE project fails you will be responsible for it !!
:)

Mosfet:
I like your work ( is there any way to turn on a detailed file list in Pixie, without any thumbnails ? ), but some of your comments make me smile. I don't see any KDE community vs. Mosfet, I hear no single voice of KDE community. KDE team just consist of people exactly like yourself. Have you bad relationships with them all ?! Look - KDE community didn't respond. Is it ignoring you ?!!

Bill:
Of course, those contributions are worhty of a dot story. Don't cheat ourselves - we haven't thousands of news we can choose from. I'm often disappointed when I visit the dot and see that there are no new stories, I didn't read a story about inventing a wheel on the dot for a very long time too... Dot is KDE news site after all, and I don't know what kind of stories are you expecting ...

by Bill Soudan (not verified)

You're right Rumcajs, it is nice to see new contributions on the dot. I'm just trying to argue that I'm disappointed to see this particular one, for a few reasons, one of which is Mosfet's past behavior... I feel stories about Mosfet's behavior are bad publicity, and in this case, I also feel the dot is keeping this bad publicity about KDE alive by posting stories that mention it. I also think by posting stories about it, the editors are only encouraging Mosfet to pull more stunts like he has in the past, because hey, they always show up on the news sites, right? Which means more bad publicity for KDE in the future. :(

The editors obviously thought differently, which is why you see the story in the first place! But there's a long history here between Mosfet and the KDE team, if you're curious, you can do a lot of research of the KDE mailing lists.

by Germain (not verified)

Come on Bill, I reckon life would be quite boring if viewed from your inner side !
Beside talent, humans also happen to cherish salt, laughs and poetry...

That sometimes help distinguishing from ants, the Venusians told me.

by Guest (not verified)

Hmm...

you know, I think u're right.
your opinion is reasonable and balanced.
however, i'm not 100% sure that the people here get it.
it's a problem of communication. The "outside world" (out of so-called "OSS community"), depict "us" as childish or so. They're not wrong. People like Mosfet illustrate that. But also, i think it is a great chance in fact that the OSS can allow such taltented (sp.?) people to work, because it would be impossible or very difficult in "normal" world (i mean, companies... i think Mosfet working directly for any customer would be a very funny thing - though not impossible maybe).
now if this suppose to make news articles from it is another story....

by Jly (not verified)

Another thing I find really interesting about this scenario is its parallel to the prodigial son story in the Bible. Everyone who got jealous about this are just like the older son. As for me, I'd prefer to be the younger son than the older son. The younger son learned something from his mistake, the older learned nothing.

Welcome back Mosfet, and I'm not saying that you did anything wrong. How much happier would the dad in the story be if his son came back with 20 times as much wealth as he left with?

Relationships between KDE and various developers are certain to go up and down. We all hope that in ups and downs, we all learn something along the way and eventually support each other.

by Asif Ali Rizwaan (not verified)

Well, Andreas Pour submitted the news ;) and 20 new contributions is indeed a good news.

by benji, the dog (not verified)

was that really mosfet who posted that? how old is he? 12?
let's see:
"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."

hehehe, ok, great one, hehehehe. knock-out argument.

"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."

hmmm, i'll babel that one, and get back to you on it?

"This is good news for both programs that deal with images and widget styles, always a subject people are interested in."

well alright partner.

"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!"

bless those stars that have brought the world such luck.

"People complaining about posting this story are totally unjustified and I can't help thinking are full of "sour grapes"."

you wan't a snack pack with that?

"They don't think anything I do should be covered, no matter how good or cool it is."

the plot thickens. conspiracy! conspiracy!

"And be ready to not read a lot of news because I am back and working on a lot of interesting new things!"

swell.

those of you responding this guy calling him mosfet (really him?), read the text again; then both you and i can lament the time we wasted responding to cute wittle mosfifet
keep it real kid :)

by Mosfet (not verified)

Heh, yep - you made a real knock-out argument there. And you call me 12? I try to make reasoned responses and all you can reply with is whiny sarcasm with no justification, like a sulking pre-teenanger. People like this commenting on my behavior is an irony all in it's own.

Enough with this, I'm done responding to trolls such as these. Back to work! PixiePlus 0.2 has just been released >:) Quit trolling and go enjoy.

by Jérôme Loisel (not verified)

If you wanted to impress anyone with your post, I believe you have failed. I suggest you hold off on criticizing other posters' comments until you can (a) capitalize and (b) articulate an opinion.

Or you're a troll. Boring.

by Jake (not verified)

But he's so right. Calling this a "well-reasoned response" is just laughable and makes you think mosfet is indeed 12 years old.

by Sean (not verified)

Projects can be so strange, I'm writing a script for a college class and I'm writing a complex script off of the fable: Envious and Avaricious.
Anyway, Bill and Mosfett (sp?) have set up a great archetype of characters for me to explore. The arrogant Mosfett vs. 2) The man of contrast: Bill.

Since I like to put a lot of childish behavior (arrogance, immaturity, pettiness) into my scripts I need the man of contrast, the man in the khaki pants, the suit, or just the swell guy that knows what he is talking about. Bill is the voice of reason, and in this case the voice of reason is the voice that looks to me like no one else will listen to. Perfect. Thanks.

by Kai (not verified)

I totally agree. At my school, people are jealous because of my relationship. They are all single and lonely and have nothing else to do but hate on me and my boyfriend. If I wasn't a strong believer in God I would have really hurt someone by now. I am trying to keep a strong, positive attitude and not worry about all the JEALOUS people, because they are very insecure and depressed. I am a very attractive young lady and smart also. I attend church every Sunday. I am a great athlete and just an outgoing, down to earth person. If I were them I would be jealous of me also. They are all so fat and ugly and they can't play sports and they don't attend church every Sunday. So yea love your haters and the jealous people. They should only motivate you to keep doing your thing and living your life to the fullest!!!!

by Haters go 2 hell (not verified)

Im 16 years old at im a junior at a alabama school. There are so many haters there that i think the school should be name Hater High . I don't talk 2 any1 because i don't trust any1. Mostly what my haters hate on me about is my car. They are so jealous. Another jealous thing is that i love to look nice and the bitches hate 2 see me look fly. But i never let a hater bring me down it just always keep me motivated.

by Johnny Andersson (not verified)

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...

by Mosfet (not verified)

I don't code themes in CVS anymore. I did for KDE2 but now do all my style work outside of CVS. There was too much conflict and I prefer doing things independently. I still do work on styles, tho, just not anything included in KDE itself.

by Johnny Andersson (not verified)

I was thinking about the general plug-in framework, which if I recall correctly were mostly designed by you. Is it considered part of kdecore and maintained by the core developers, or is the code just "lying" there? ;)

by PRR (not verified)

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?)

by Shamyl Zakariya (not verified)

Me too! I was incredibly excited when I saw that; but I haven't heard anything since.

by Mosfet (not verified)

It was buggier than a cow turd sitting in a Texas field in August :P I might pick it up again for KDE3.