KDE Developer Sirtaj Singh Kang Interviewed

highwaytohell writes "Sirtaj Singh Kang is a KDE developer and an official spokesman for KDE in Australia. In this interview conducted by the Sydney Morning Herald he talks about how the KDE project manages to maintain its hierarchy, where he sees KDE in the future, Linux portability issues and the relationship between Trolltech and KDE developers. The article gives a good insight into how maintainers and developers work to maintain one of the more popular window managers for Linux. Certainly worth a read."

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KDE interview

[Anonymous Coward]

Does anybody know if NetBSD has been ported to this yet?

hehe- this raised a laugh

[Graspee_Leemoor]

From the article:

"There are always people who would rather talk about it than actually help with development."

So we can take it he reads /. then...

graspee

Re:hehe- this raised a laugh

[Anonymous Coward]

I see the problem with that statement. It should have read: "KThere kAre kAlways kPeople kWho kWould kRather ktalk kAbout kIt kthan kActually kHelp kWith kDevelopment." babelfish should have a KDE translator so that they kan all talk/write the way they really should.

Re:Fundamental differences will always divide Win/

[b0r1s]

That's a good point, and it's well known.

It's damn near time someone decided to scrap X and write KDE directly on top of the kernel.

Re:How about de-branding KDE?

[DAldredge]

Calm down! It's not like the KDE people get upset when others change they look and feel of KDE. After all the code is GPLed.

Re:How about de-branding KDE?

[Dr. Awktagon]

I don't know if you're trolling, but personally, I can't stand that "K". I don't mind Gnome's "G" everywhere, but I don't like KDE's "K" at all.

Visually, "K" is just an annoying, ugly letter, all kinds of sharp edges, and it doesn't brighten my day the way a nice "g" or "i" does. Just take a look at that "g", if you've got the right font, it's like a beautiful woman. You can't even get away from "K" in lowercase: "k" looks just like "K". It's like somebody getting kneed in the crotch, or something. (Kneed - begins with "K", ouch!).

When you say it out loud, it makes everything heavy and hard, like something from another language. Konsole. Konqueror. TheKompany. Though each day I am thankful I don't have to put up with a "Kalendar" or a "Klok", or, heaven forfend, a "Kalkulator". The other day, I found myself thinking of programming in kvikkalkul or plankalkül. Skary!

(What do non-English native speakers think of the "K"?)

Well, yes this sounds incredibly stupid, but I avoided KDE for a long time simply because of my strong anti-K stance. No marketing department would ever overuse "K" the way KDE has. Now that I've been using it since I installed RH7.3, I've gotten a little used to it, but man, I'd kill (kill - begins with K) for a nice soft "o", that would be so nice and comfy, maybe even a little funny, like Santa Claus laughing.

(Can you tell I've been programming all weekend?? You know, after you stare at letters for hours on end, they start to stare back....)

Re:How about de-branding KDE?

[rainwalker]

I prefer the branding. I had heard about Evolution. People said it was great. So I tried it. Ten seconds later it was "Oh my God it's installing all of GNOME! Stop stop stop! I didn't want GNOME! Aaargh!"

Hah...that's EXACTLY the reaction I had :) Luckily I have a large & mainly empty hard drive and a fast internet connection...otherwise I would have just given up on Evolution. It would be nice if they would include a little disclaimer along the lines of "Warning! Installing this program will install virtually ALL of the *other* desktop manager!" Of course, calling it gEvolution would be even MORE annoying...Gevolution? Gnomvolution? Evolome? (Nice sound to that last one...)

Re:Fundamental differences will always divide Win/

[Anonymous Coward]

Unfortunately, logging in and then counting on your fingers how long it takes for the desktop to come up does not constitute "benchmarking".