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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. Wonderful news by i_am_nitrogen · · Score: 2, Informative

    I for one am looking forward to installing KDE3 when it's all good and ready. Both KDE and Gnome have made incredible progress in the last few years. I think that the Open Source desktop systems are advancing much more quickly than any proprietary system. It's only a matter of time before KDE and Gnome surpass (if they haven't already) all proprietary GUI systems as far as appearance and usability go. My only complaint about KDE is that it's all C++, and it takes forever to load on an older computer. As I recall that's a problem with the dynamic C++ linker, and not KDE itself, though.

    It would seem that "The Dot" is already fallen under the Slashdot effect.

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    1. Re:Wonderful news by bero-rh · · Score: 2, Informative

      My only complaint about KDE is that it's all C++

      A matter of perspective - my only major gripe with gnome is that its API re-invents the wheel over and over (C is not an object-oriented language, and gtk's attempt at emulating an object oriented language just isn't as good as the real thing, IMO).

      It would seem that "The Dot" is already fallen under the Slashdot effect.

      Currently working on it... The machine's load was temporarily up at 33.8, it's starting
      to enter acceptable values (10.33 ATM) now, after some tweaking.

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  2. Not just a large contribution by jonathan_ingram · · Score: 5, Informative
    Mosfet writes some good code, but don't go away thinking that KDE is lost without him (particularly not because of this recent contributution of some effects ripped from imagemagick). This is so far away from the truth as to be laughable.

    One of the biggest things to happen to KDE in last year has been the rewrite of KDE's printing support, by Michael Goffioul. No-one goes around proclaiming Michael as a coding god, because he just got on with it and produced something very impressive (and that has got even more impressive in KDE 3).

    Similarly for the developer(s) of Kate, KDE's text editor. Or the developers of Konqueror, who have equalled Mozilla with a twentieth of the personnel and a thousandth of the money.

    Similarly for all the people that don't code, but instead translate KDE into 15 million languages.

    KDE is a true team effort and can do without coding primadonnas.

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  3. Re:What's the story? by Nevrar · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=mosfet might help...

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  4. Re:oh boy! by Kwikymart · · Score: 2, Informative

    When was the last time you tried kde? You could argue that it is slow, but saying that it is buggy is completely untrue.

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  5. Re:What's the story? by ThatComputerGuy · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm not exactly sure of the specifics, but I do know that mosfet had a falling out earlier with the rest of the KDE developers.

    He's done some cool stuff for KDE, but from what I heard, he appeared to not work well as a team and could possibly have been a hindrance to KDE's progress. This is mostly what I read from KDE's other developers.

    Mosfet took his code and began developing separately from KDE, and KDE developers allegedly began forking his code, sometimes even claiming that mosfet's code was forked.

    He then had some trouble with FutureTech, but that's not directly related to the KDE team at all.

    So, that's what I know. Basically some stuff I've read from mosfet, kde developers, and 3rd parties.

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  6. Oh no they didn't by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    With Winders you got a little hourglass, or some kind of thingy, depending on what you selected. It showed there was activity. KDE goes one step further and displays the icon of the app itself, so you know what is loading.