People behind KDE: Jono Bacon

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.

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by Eric Veltman (not verified)

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

by juan (not verified)

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.

by Carbon (not verified)

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

by its me again (not verified)

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.

by Jono Bacon (not verified)

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?

by dent (not verified)

loki has made its game installer availlable
it s xml based , works without X also and is free and customizable:
here
it just uses gtk ;)

by reihal (not verified)

An installer is in the works.

It uses Qt ;-)

by Chris Bordeman (not verified)

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...

by Chris Bordeman (not verified)

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

by well.. (not verified)

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

Jason

by Jason Katz-Brown (not verified)

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: katzbrown.com/krpn-0.1.tar.gz

* is wildfox ever going to be interviewed?

by reihal (not verified)

Is mosfet going to be interviewed?

by stephan (not verified)

you should really interview WildFox.

by Tink (not verified)

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 ;-)

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by Tink (not verified)

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.

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by Roberto Alsina (not verified)

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 ;-)

by Jono Bacon (not verified)

I remember the might ralsina. ;--P

by Nikolas Zimmermann (not verified)

Hey Tink,

born 15.03.1986
death hope in > 70 years :)

That's it ;)

by Jason Katz-Brown (not verified)

haha wildfox :P