On Wednesday 23 September 2009 01:49:39 am John Andersen wrote:
If nothing else this makes it patently obvious the old saw about fixing it your self, because its open source, to be totally unworkable. That way can not work anymore. The code base is simply not that simple.
For the right person, with intimate knowledge of the code base this was quick and efficient. (I didn't say easy). For Joe Random Hacker, it would be a total mess.
John, You hit the nail on the head. I was amazed and shocked by the new code changes required just to get a window to appear in kde4. Then I was shocked for a second time when I saw the executable size was 440k just to draw a window and save and load 1 line of text. See: http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials#Introduction_To_KDE_4_Programm... and more specifically: http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Saving_and_loading The old tinkerer has no chance with kde4. I'm not so sure that is good for opensource. Yes, the kde4 is an excellent looking desktop, but when one of the primary desktops for Linux raises the coding barriers well above where they there were, the pool of people that can contribute applications for the desktop dramatically shrinks. Going through the tutorials, basic kde4 coding is friendly enough to understand, but from the looks of it, you will have to basically re-learn everything related to kde programming to make use of the new kde4 tools it is built from. -- 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