On 02/10/2010 11:33 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 02/08/2010 12:55 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
Oh, David, you just simply do not understand the KDE Development model - sorry to say.
This is from the KDE Development site:
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*KDE P*hilosophy and Core Tenets
* Get it done NOW! * Focus! * Use available tools rather than re-inventing existing ones! * When making a suggestion, change "we should.." to "I will.."; grandiose plans are useless unless you are willing to put in the work. * Improve iteratively. * Start with reasonable functionality and then improve over time.
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BC,
I guess you are right, I must not understand :-(
Because it sounds to me like the philosophy is really, "Oh, shit! There is no plan, stick it where it will fit even if it quadruples the number of clicks required to get it done, go ahead... move it from where it was designed to go just to get it working, if we don't get something working out quick, then the cat's out of the bag and the users will figure out that we haven't really haven't had a plan since some idiot release 4.04 as a final release when it was really pre-alpha in June 2008 and we have been robbing Peter to pay Paul to get a justified 4.1 out the door ever since, but we bought some time by changing the release numbers so quickly the community really thought it was getting something other than the beta releases leading up to where we are today. They won't all stay in the dark forever, so hurry damnit! We are understaffed, over loaded, and have an enterprise size code-base to bring together on duct-tape and bailing wire resources. All of this would have worked out fine if you had just been honest with the community in 2008 and said, 'It ain't ready yet', but no... somebody had to go stick the uncaged tiger in the ass with a cattle-prod and just look were that has put us today! I'm so tired of suturing up claw marks from that damned old pissed cat, I've had it --- I QUIT!"
I see what your saying, thanks! :p
BTW - One the same topic, 4.4.00 is out today and it looks pretty good! There is still no way to set the color of the system monitor widgets (CPU, Network, etc..) that regressed at 4.3.9X, but on balance it works really well. The new "Add Widget" slider at the bottom now slides and you can drag/drop your widget to the desktp or kicker. I guess somebody got the cat back in the cage for the time being ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org