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Mosfet Contributes Code To KDE (Again)

Posted by timothy on from the good-news-for-a-new-year dept.

davidsmind writes "Former KDE hacker and creator of the much acclaimed Liquid theme, Mosfet(AKA Daniel M. Duley ) is back in the spotlight. The Dot was the first one with the story. 'Many in the KDE community are aware of some rocky history between KDE hacker Mosfet and other KDE developers. Fortunately, it looks like things have taken a great turn for the better: Mosfet wrote in to tell us that "I've decided to donate 20 effects I ported to KDE/Qt for PixiePlus to KDE3." Waldo Bastian promptly added them to CVS.'" The list of effects is long, impressive, and under a BSD-style license. Mosfet has done a lot of the work that makes my desktop pretty, so I'm very happy to hear about this.

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  1. Mosfet who? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    KDE nobody adds more eye-candy code to already bloated and slow project.

    Slashdot front page?

  2. Re:It's amazing.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The other 1% is what I like to call...




    A bunch of slimy, unbathed, cock gnome, Linux faggots.


    This post made with the *ALL NEW* Linux 8.1, 17000 hours free for the first 30 days! So sorry, no wonder it's #12!

  3. Re:Not just a large contribution by nathanh · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    Or the developers of Konqueror [konqueror.org], who have equalled Mozilla with a twentieth of the personnel and a thousandth of the money.

    Without belittling Konqueror, as it is truly an excellent browser, it is not in the same league as Mozilla.

  4. Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    I am amazed by how I absolutely couldn't give one tiny little fuck about this.

    KDE is for cocksmokers.

    Get with the program. Gnome roxors haxors.

  5. Re:It's amazing.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And what's with the scoring system anyway? What, do you earn enough geek points and win a thinkgeek mousepad for the top 10 scorers.. Outstanding...

  6. Re:oh boy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Someone cares because there is a difference between the too, you idiot.
    If people were given a choice to use only a windowmanager, say WindowMaker and a
    desktop, say KDE, people would choose depending on what these two pieces of software delivers.

    A windowmanager delivers window management, and a desktop delivers a desktop, with or without window management. That's why you can use KDE, Gnome with various window managers. In fact, Gnome doesn't even provide a window manager (although sawfish seems to be a de facto standard).

    Because of this freedom to choose your own setup, many people flee the
    static world of Windows. But I guess that's too hard to understand for
    you, you idiot.

    STFU and crawl back under that f*cking stone you came from.

  7. Re:Not just a large contribution by Jagasian · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Without belittling Mozilla, as it is truly an excellent browser, it is not in the same league as Konqueror.

  8. Re:Wonderful news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Dude, when did Gnome make any progress? Last time I tried Gnome (debian woody) it was like stepping back in time. NOTHING has happened since I used it two years ago.

    All that I can see is new is nautilus.