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KDE Celebrates 10 Years of Existence
Rob Kaper wrote in to tell us about KDE's 10th anniversary. From the article:
"Yesterday at 10:00 AM the president of the KDE e.V. Eva Brucherseifer welcomed the audience of the presentation track at the KDE anniversary event at the Technische Akademie Esslingen (TAE) in Ostfildern near Stuttgart, Germany. Keynote speakers were Matthias Ettrich, founder of the KDE project, as well as Klaus Knopper of Knoppix fame. During their presentations they looked back at KDE's successful past 10 years and they offered their thoughts about the future of KDE and Free Software."
Rob adds this thought: "We've come a long way in ten years, but where must we still improve?"
Why would I want to donate to a project that will be dead in 10 years. All the major distros these days (Ubuntu) use gnome because it is somewhat user friendly.
KDE, OTOH, is luser friendly. Bloated. Like a corpse. And over complicated.
At the moment, it's hard to even find someone that can rudimentarily understand the tangled cobweb that is KDE programming. Knuth, Kernighan or Ritchie themselves couldn't figure it out. And they wouldn't want to. They could develop something more elegant, functional, and sane within the year than the jack (off) of all trade that KDE tries to be.
The few distros that I tried it on, not everything ever worked. Hell, their IDE never started up correctly (or at all....) even though it should be a integrated package.
The best thing for KDE would be to dissolve and stop wasting their developers time and talents. If they want to continue making something dysfunctional, bloated, and braindead, perhaps they should seek employment at Microsoft.
DBUS is heavily used in recent GNOMEs... and it is not DCOP on steroids. Imagine redesigning and reimplemnting DCOP to fix all the stupid design flaws, and then beefing it up to be a more capable IPC system.
Naturally, this work was done mostly by GNOME hackers... and it was built in such a way that there are no desktop dependencies. Had it been done by KDE hackers, it would have been tied to Qt... and probably never get finished.