On Thursday, 2009-12-10, Duncan wrote: > Lydia Pintscher posted on Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:24:53 +0100 as excerpted: > >> One person yes. A group no. A group can accomplish a great deal. Look > >> at Ardour or Rosegarden or the Gimp or K3b. One man couldn't write and > >> maintain those. A group does and can. All of them arose from > >> dissatisfaction with what existed out there at the time. There is a > >> great deal of dissatisfaction with KDE 4. Thus a fertile bed for a > >> split. Depends on whether the right people get involved or not. > > > > You have a completely wrong idea about how many people are working on > > K3B. > > I was going to point that out too... but then remembered that after all, > k3b is a kde app, using kde services, etc. The modular nature of kde > makes it possible to do what k3b does with only a single coder... except > because it's built on kde, it's really /not/ a single coder. =:^) Exactly! :) > But that of course plays right into the related point, that /because/ kde > is so modularized, it's relatively easy to replace various individual > parts -- and actually, that is already being done with plasma, with > plasma-desktop being replaceable with plasma-netbook or whatever that > "newspaper mode" shell is called. Yes, I think Plasma Netbook (Workspace) is the correct name. > Talking about which... I'm so far behind on my kde-planet and related > feeds it's pitiful, but is that netbook shell going to make it for 4.4? > I have a netbook on which I plan to put kde (Gentoo based) at some point, > so what I've read about that has sounded /real/ interesting! Don't know to that certain either, but I think it will only be at a preview stage at the time of the main release. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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