-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2010-10-10 at 18:09 +0100, Oliver Kullmann wrote: ...
If I may add a general remark: I think the most important problem with any kind of software, and especially with such complex and fuzzy systems like "desktops", is that apparently nobody dares to create, discuss and document the general *abstract* concepts, the underlying ideas, the "mental images". Instead one only finds attempts at "enter this string", without even explaining what would be the result (gain). And without such underlying structures the whole KDE desktop (like any other software out there) is just a bag of hacks, assembled at random, and "discovered" by the user at random.
You are absolutely right, IMO. Linux, in general, moves "forward" at a great speed. Somebody develops, changing things, inventing things... but many are left behind, wondering how things works now, how everything is supposed to integrate. Not only the desktop, but all. It is very possible that one knew those things a year ago and not now.
I teach computer science, and so I know that today those which still have some sort of technical interest (not just a business interest) tend to be half-autistic, and so the links to language and meaning are broken.
And those that could write often do not know, because first those that know have to communicate what they did. Thus we are left to discover that terra ignota for ourselves.
Sorry for the general remarks, but actually this is a kind of attempt to improve the situation. ;-)
+1 I took the liberty to change the title to attract people to this branch of the conversation :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkyyzzUACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VUQQCfVE8goEf0meJYM92HU5hwfQLM BzIAnRXijpdY0AdsE7Y7/3zdq2nvcaWe =K64G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org