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KDE Contributor Conference 2003 "Kastle" Report
Last weekend the KDE Contributor Conference 2003 in Nove Hrady ("Kastle") ended. There's a conference report, all slides and papers have been published, and there are lots of photos including the obligatory group photo (use mouse pointer and look at the status bar to see the names!). Also part of kastle were the KOffice Developers' Meeting and the presentation of Qt 4.
Please. Seriously. Stop with all the ridiculous K prefixes or I will hammer a bullet into my forehead while leaving a loaded gun nearby just to confuse the authorities.
Everybody complains about it, nobody likes it, and the only people who think it's "cute" are the developers, and we've got enough silly in-joke project names as it is. Can we at least shoot for professional here?
"Sufferin' succotash."
That, combined with the recently revealed knowledge that Trolltech is partially owned by the same group that owns SCO, provides ample impetus for all societally concerned Linux users to choose GNOME.
Choose this desktop! No this one! No that one! No! NOOOOooooooo!
We should stop these desktop wars and make a desktop that's completely different but universal. I'm talking about an idea I call, "Fart Desktop". The fart desktop would deliver a richer experience to the end user. A new language made up of different types of farts would be used to communicate. Easy to memorize, users from any country could easily master Fart Desktop by sound alone*.
From there, imagine the experiences that await you! No more language barriers when you talk on-line or in on-line games! Users could freely talk after mastering the simple to learn Fart Desktop fart language. Prefer to talk to Fart Desktop the old fashioned way? No problem! You could learn from the built in training section in Fart Desktop how to tune yourself into farting different sounds so you could communicate with Fart Desktop while eating, for example.
* Sorry, those who are blind would have to wait for the hardware for Fart Desktop which will communicate to the end user in a complex language of simulated fart smells.
I think it sounds like a good idea. How about you?
If you look carefully, you will see that the gnome zealot havoc pennington attended! No doubt that he will get his "hig" out and rape all the developers unless they submit to his demands and remove features and force users to use gconf-editor.
First of all, he will strip kwin out and replace it with metakitty, and we all know that metacity sucks big balls compared to sawfish.
He will replace the Superior KDE file dialog with the monstrosity of the gtk one.
He will remove kcontrol and replace it with kconf and kconf-editor.
and finally, we will remove konqueror and replace it with Kaleon, an inferior port of the inferior galeon browser.
Remember. Defend KDE, don't let it get HIGified!
KDE has begun to throw out american KDE developers, and its TRUE! Please read and mod up!