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KDE Developer Sirtaj Singh Kang Interviewed

Posted by timothy on from the level-headed dept.

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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  1. KDE Haiku by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I like to beat it
    Until the lotion runs out
    Then use KDE

  2. Developers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Developing email message testing 123

  3. What can Microsoft Visual Studio .NET do for you? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh, I'm sorry, that WASN'T part of the article?!?

  4. As Captain James T. Kirk might say, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Kang!!!!!

    1. Re:As Captain James T. Kirk might say, by Ponty · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Kodos!!!!

    2. Re:As Captain James T. Kirk might say, by grytpype · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No that was on the Simpsons. Kang and Kodos.

      --

      - Have a picture

    3. Re:As Captain James T. Kirk might say, by Ponty · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Uh, I know. Admiral Kirk's real nemesis was Kahn. If my memory serves, Kang was a Klingon captain in a TOS episode (and maybe that Klingons-from-the-past DS9 ep.)

      I thought my comment was funny. People differ. (And feh to the offtopic moderator. That's where the interesting bits are here.)

  5. Another KDE Haiku by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    KDE r0X0rs
    It is the muthafukkin
    shiznit, bizzatch. Yeh.

    1. Re:Another KDE Haiku by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Laugh I did
      Looking at KDE team
      You are all flamers

  6. Ok you Gnomes... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nothing's happening here. Move along now.

  7. offtopic KDE question, PLEASE HELP ME!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How do you change the resolution in KDE?

    I installed Knoppix, the default resolution was too high for my monitor, so I used CTRL+ALT+- to reduce the resolution to 800x600, this works, but the desktop itself is still at a larger resolution, so I have to move my mouse to the egde of the screen and "scroll" around my desktop to view it all. How can I set it so the actual desktop is 800x600 also??!?

    PLEASE HELP

    (Post AC if you're worried about getting modded as offtopic, but please reply if you know how!)

    1. Re:offtopic KDE question, PLEASE HELP ME!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Boot with 'knoppix screen=1280x1024'

    2. Re:offtopic KDE question, PLEASE HELP ME!!! by JabberWokky · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      In KDE 3.1, you can set it in the Control Center, but prior to that, you had to reconfigure X, generally a task that each distro handles differently (not to mention each X server). In SuSE, it's in the Control Center under Hardware/Graphic Cards and Monitor, but most distros don't place their configuration utilities in the KDE Control Center, which means you'll have to poke around. It only works if you're using XFree, but since most Linuxes do, you should have no problem. You can also rotate the screen on the same panel.

      Oh, and 3.1 isn't out quite yet - RC2 comes out tommrrow. It should be released in the next couple weeks.

      --
      Evan

      --
      "$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
    3. Re:offtopic KDE question, PLEASE HELP ME!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      He only said "I installed Knoppix" in his message, you stupid shit-gobbling faggot, what distro do you think he's using?

    4. Re:offtopic KDE question, PLEASE HELP ME!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      ...where 1280=800 and 1024=600, obviously. :)

  8. Indian curry sucks Gautama's balls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    - The Japanese

  9. Re:Whats happening with gnome? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The original developers caught mono and have been sleeping alot ever since.

  10. Re:How about de-branding KDE? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just hope there won't be too much Kstuff Klike Kthis Kin Kthe Kfuture.

    I got *really* scared when I saw the name "Kroupware" - luckily it's only a temporary name!

  11. Re:URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am definitely interested in helping you with your plight, sir. However, you neglected to post your e-mail address or some other means of contact.

    Standing by for your response. May God Bless and Allah smile down upon you.

  12. DON'T FORGET INDIAN OCCUPATION OF KASHMIR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    those dumb hindu 's that worship tiger penis and monkey's like to kill people in Kashmir. They need to leave that place and let Kashmiri decide for themselves who rules them.

  13. Re:KDE interview by sirsnork · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Speaking of other OS's I got a Visual Studio.Net training ad when I went to read the comments... Somebodies watching I tell you!

    --

    Normal people worry me!
  14. Re:C++ templates and Qt compile speed by elflord · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    PyQt/sip (python bindings) have a more friendly license. The copyright notice is very permissive, it looks like the X11 license.

  15. Re:How about de-branding KDE? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Quick lesson in Finnish:

    Kalja (crappy beer)
    Olut (Classy, smooth beer)

    Keskeytetty yhdyntà (Coitus Interruptus)
    Orgasmi (Go figure it out)

    By following this proven logic, the choice between
    KDE and OpenWindows becomes quite easy.

    Unless you like crappy beer and you don't like to get off.

  16. Re:KDE Haiku by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A better KDE haiku:

    Better than the GNOME
    Oh, low end Pentium box
    Stuck with one point one