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KDEvelopers on KDE Users

Posted by timothy on from the you-mean-we-have-users dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "KDE developers spent some time this week on their mailing list discussing what motivates them and the extent to which user concerns figure in their decisions. Dennis E. Powell's column on Linux and Main draws excerpts from the exchange, in which he participated, and says that he believes a lot more of this kind of discussion is needed."

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  1. KDE != good usability / cooperation(users,coders) by Qbertino · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    When it boils down to usabilty, KDE/KWin is nothing much more than a silly rippoff of the crappy Windoze CUA model. It's so much Windows in it's inflexability and "user-railroading" that it quite often just plain SUXX0RS!.
    The KDE/KWin Enviroment is closer to Windows than to a well configurated Linux/Enlightenment enviroment.

    And for users and coders working togther:
    It's ALL about communication. If at all, we need a quick and easy way for controling usability and getting users and coders together to discuss the issues arising. Special usability mailinglists of forums for every project would kinda be the thing.
    But a former Windoze user to lazy to switch to an enviroment that is so usable he can't even imagine it is NOT the right person to judge usability.

    --
    We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
  2. Shame on Slashdot! Releasenot worth a mention? by Moritz+Moeller+-+Her · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You do not cover the release of KDE-3.0.2, about 2 days ago, but you make room for dep, a guy who is so crazy that he thinks KDE developers are Nazis and racists. Don't believe me?

    QUOTING dep:

    All that notwithstanding, the initial troll was from a KDE developer, using a kde.org email address, posting to a KDE-sponsored list. Anyone reading the thread will come away with the view that KDE is a product of anti-American, anti-semitic developers pushing an agenda of which the National Socialist party would have been proud, indeed was proud.
    source: http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News= article=47

    This guy has contributed little to nothing to KDE, but he is pissed off because the KDE adressbook was not developed according to his wishes. So he tries to slander the KDE community.

    Slashdot is pissing me off, giving this guy a bigger forum and not even mentioning the hard work in the KDE-3.0.2 release!

    --
    Moritz
  3. Re:problem no 1.: lack of tutorials and beginner d by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's been said before but, unless you work for TrollTech or contribute a huge amount of code to KDE/Qt (and hence TrolTech's bottom line), you are dogshit as far they are concerned.

    The whole project is insular to a quite reamarkable degree - and attacks newcomers and criticism like a religion. I've been involved in both GNOME and KDE... and GNOME is rational, calm and most of all, technical in its decision. the KDE project is full of flamers and lamers... and you can see the difference in the code produced too.

  4. Keep in mind your source by JamesKPolk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Dennis Powell is the guy who put up an editorial suggesting that the K in KDE stands for a marching Nazi soldier, and has implied repeatedly on his site and on kde-cafe mailing list that KDE developers are Nazis or Nazi sympathizers.