KDE Developer Sirtaj Singh Kang Interviewed

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 3, 2002 @05:18PM 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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Re:Fundamental differences will always divide Win/ by Anonymous Coward · 2002-11-03 18:41 · Score: 1, Troll

"X is actually faster than the GDI for most things. "

Bullshit. Both of them result in a call to graphic driver which , generally, is better optimized on Windows.

"The main problem is that the toolkits (ahem, Qt) don't really use X all that well."

They use it the way it was intended.
Every fucking Qt call of say QPainter maps almost directly to Xlib function.
What else would you have them to do ?