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Ars Technica: Deep Inside KDE 3.2
binner writes "Ars Technica features an article 'Deep inside the K Desktop Environment 3.2' written by Datschge and Henrique Pinto. After introducing KDE and the project's structure the authors present some new applications of KDE 3.2. After that they explain the key KDE technologies KParts, DCOP, KIO, Kiosk and KXMLGUI and give examples for code reusage and an overview of efforts to integrate non-KDE applications. For developers Umbrello, Cervisia and Valgrind with KCachegrind are introduced and of course KDevelop 3.0. An examination of licenses precedes the positive conclusion."
Kirst Kost
Deep inside KDE sounds very TRONish. I was hoping for a detailed look at Master Control Program. Oh well, the article must have been posted by a NULL unit.
Are you Corn Fed?
"Deep Inside Katey Pt 3" had some of the hottest...oh, wait, I misheard. Never mind.
Hmmm. Seems your right. A hexdump of the file header hints at its history:
Wow, that's a nice copy/paste from KDE Dot News...
Anyways, a really nice article. It's absolutely refreshing after the thousand and one "reviews" of KDE we've seen lately ("oh, look that ugly pixel in the right bottom corner"). We need more of these technically-targetted reviews.
Is it me, or are there way too many links in that article. Do we really need seperate links to the source code download, binaries download, release notes and system requirements pages?
If someone has done a study on the most effective text to link ratio, I'm sure they'd find that this Ars article is about 10x higher.
hmmmm, I haven't used KDE in years mind you, so I might try it one. But to me, if I'm trying to get away from windows why would I want to use KDE which tries to mimic windows in a lot of ways? looks and feels a lot like windows with it's point an click everything interface.
Wouldn't that be Master Kontrol Program????
KDE - rad kool 1992 Acura Integra with huge wing, go-fast stripes, bumblebee muffler, NOS, tinted windows, butt-jiggling subwoofer
Gnome - 1999 beige Toyota Camry sedan
(*I drive a Camry and I use Gnome)
This installment in the series is NOT as good as the last "Deep Inside" volume I checked out.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
I can just imagine a GUI implemented in a purely functional language:
Q: I tried to click on the button but nothing is happening? What's wrong?
A: If we responded to user actions, would create side-effects in the program. We can't condone that.
What's next?
GNOME - Pre-teen midgets gone wild XXX?
Sorry, *tired*.
So I shouldn't try it with my 25 mhz 486SX with 16 MB of memory?
A good demonstration of said spell checker!
What does it mean, when you're going for "Funny" but get "Troll" instead?
Dude, the "Sqrt" button is clearly for the Squirt operation. That's when you take a number and squeeze it until it squirts all over the place. The result is the various pieces of the number jumbled together. For example, Sqrt(54) might result in the bottom part of the five (which looks similar to a comma) and the right section of the four (which looks similar to an 'l'), along with two angle-thingies, which are like radians. See?
The squirt function is very usefull in electrical engineering and theoretical algorithmic programming. Com'on, didn't they teach you this in trig class?!?
[SIG] It's like putting a moose in the blender -- a recipe for disaster!
Sorry about getting to the comments so late, but it's taken me all fucking morning to run off reading every link in the /. write-up...
'Thats they exact same thing a banana wrench monkey.'