People of KDE: Cornelius Schumacher
Monday, 4 February 2002 | Inorog
Tink's weekly report from the steady journey through our fellowship features today the author of Kandy and the present maintainer of the highly-praised KOrganizer. We thus name Cornelius Schumacher. He also co-authored a nice new developer tool dubbed KBugBuster and is a trusted member of the KDE-PIM team. We now get the chance to learn more about him and his passions. Thank you, Cornelius. And thank you, Tink, for another interesting interview.
Comments:
ZX 81 - Uwe Thiem - 2002-02-04
The ZX 81 was his first computer. Mine as well. That was a box (well, rather a cigarette box). 1 KB of ram, including video ram. Uwe
image? - Andy "Storm" Goossens - 2002-02-04
Where is the typical "People of KDE" image that is always used for Tink's reports?
Re: image? - Carbon - 2002-02-04
Yes, this article has the "Community & Events" icon, whereas most of the interviews have the "Interviews" icon. Btw, why does the interviews icon have a lion on it, anyways?
Re: image? - Andy "Storm" Goossens - 2002-02-04
Is it a lion? Hard to tell... it wears glasses and it looks more like a monkey :-) KDE people = a bunch of primates? :-)
Re: image? - Navindra Umanee - 2002-02-04
It sorta looks like it means something (is it the Interviewer? is it the Interviewee?) in the interview context, but on closer look who the heck knows what it really is? That just makes it laugh-out-loud funny to me. :) In case you haven't noticed, all the dot topic icons are lifted directly out of an old KDE cvs. Original art wasn't something I particularly put much thought into for this site. But I've always been fond of the topic icons... most especially when compared to the Gnotices ones. :-P For that matter, our original grey logo was thrown together by Kurt in GIMP based on my own previous pathetic attempt to make one in Killu. We stayed with that black and white thing for a long time! Then q cured us of that, by designing the popular dot logo you see today. :)
Original Logo - Evan "JabberWokky" E. - 2002-02-05
Is the original logo still available, preferably in a higher res format? I kinda liked it, and seem to recall that it would have gone into wallpapers, etc. nicely. -- Evan
Re: Original Logo - Navindra Umanee - 2002-02-05
<a href="http://www.kde.org/dot/Images/kdedotnews.old.gif">kdedotnews.old.gif</a> is all that I have. Maybe see if Kurt wants to whip up something high-resolution for you. Note that the wheel is just another icon pulled out of an old KDE cvs. Everything else is font work with the Gimp.
Re: Original Logo - Navindra Umanee - 2002-02-05
Oh, don't get me wrong. I quite liked it too.
Re: image? - Tackat - 2002-02-05
Well if you rip an icon out of context then that's your own problem :-) The lion is being used for dvi-files. People who are used to TeX-files and stuff associated with it can't really avoid to meet the tex-lion or the metafont-cat somewhere in the (La)TeX-Documentation. Greetings, Tackat
Re: image? - Navindra Umanee - 2002-02-05
Hehe, I see. Mea culpa, most certainly and intentionally! :) I'm one of the fangled TeX users who's never touched a real live TeX book, and so haven't met the mascot. Thank you info and Google! Cheers, -N.
Re: image? - Tink - 2002-02-09
Maybe I can submit my own icon? A little Tinkerbell fairy who sprinkles magic dust to get kde hackers to talk? Just a thought ;-) -- Tink
Re: image? - Rob Kaper - 2002-02-05
> Is it a lion? Hard to tell... it wears glasses and it looks more like a monkey :-) Damn, a monkey? Ximian bought the Dot! ;-)
Re: image? - Navindra Umanee - 2002-02-04
Fixed, seems the article got filled under "Community and Events" rather than "Interviews" when I wasn't looking. It's debatable which category it fits best under, but all the other interviews are at least now filled in the same category...
Re: date? - Thorsten Schnebeck - 2002-02-04
Ohh, maybe its a goot idea to put a release date one every interview page, quite nice if yo read the old once a second time. Bye Thorsten
NEdit Plugin for KDevelop? - Dario Abatianni - 2002-02-05
Hi! The article said something about an NEdit plugin for KDevelop. Where can I find it? For I love this piece of software (if only there was a KDE port of this concept... *sigh* :)) -- Dario "Eisfuchs" Abatianni
Re: NEdit Plugin for KDevelop? - Cornelius Schumacher - 2002-02-05
It's in CVS (HEAD branch of kdevelop).
Re: NEdit Plugin for KDevelop? - Dario Abatianni - 2002-02-05
Thanks!
Re: NEdit Plugin for KDevelop? - Johnny Andersson - 2002-02-06
Sounds to good to be true. Must try it...
Cool, but... - Syllten - 2002-02-05
But when is the beta2 coming? Isn't it suposed to be here now?
Re: Cool, but... - hal - 2002-02-05
Mhm, maybe because mail.kde.org is down ? Can't ping and can't reach mailman interface. Hope there will be some debian sid binarys. But I don't think ther will ;) have fun HAL
Re: Cool, but... - Ian Reinhart Geiser - 2002-02-05
actually CVS had been dead since monday along with ftp uploads and the mailing list. they are down for maintance. no, cvs is not magicly provided, VA dontes the bandwidth and server space. i know most linux users are use to the free ride, but maby this could be a time to send cash / hardware or thanks to the people who maintain these systems. Special thanks to those who allready contribute way more than their fair share. just my 2cents... -ian reinhart geiser
Re: Cool, but... - Nadeem Hasan - 2002-02-06
Ian, You spelling sucks :-) Anyway, it was nice talking to you the other day at LWCE.
Re: Cool, but... - Holger 'zecke' Freyther - 2002-02-06
true. Wasn't the KDE e.V. created to legally receive donations? What about creating a kde e.V. website and register at paypal. Then everbody can just donate what they wan't and the KDE e.V. manages this pool of money. Just my 0,02Euro
Re: Cool, but... - Neil Stevens - 2002-02-07
Well, it was created to enter into the Free Qt Foundation, but it expanded into accepting donations. As for fundraising, I think it'd be best if KDE eV could raise the cash then pay for the cvs and master services directly, this way there would be real leverage for when the thing does down. The please will have to be done without snide comments about "free rides," though.
Re: Cool, but... - Neil Stevens - 2002-02-07
ugh, s/please/pleas/ And about "Free rides," who's writing the stupid code anyway? I see no free ride here anyway.