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.)
Mosfet Contributes Code to KDE (Again)
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Sorry to hear that, man. I know the feeling, sometimes code should be allowed to die a noble death.
Please consider it for KDE3. Is the code you tried available on your site or on CVS somewhere?
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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