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KDE Project Invites Ideas With Online Brainstorm

Posted by timothy on from the gnome-project-has-telepathy dept.

ruphus13 writes "In addition to working with the community for source code, KDE is looking to democratize idea creation and innovation via its new initiative called KDE Brainstorm. The initiative, which attempts to further decentralize roadmap decision-making by allowing popular ideas to be voted up, is outlined here: 'The KDE team recently announced the KDE Brainstorm initiative. KDE Brainstorm, in practice, works much like Dell's IdeaStorm — community members of all walks of life are invited to chip in their ideas for new and improved features and functions, with the wider community voting on (and fleshing out) these ideas. Ideas that generate enough interest are then reviewed further by developers, who work to make them happen. KDE Brainstorm officially rolled out March 20th, and the response over these first few days has been enthusiastic. In less than 24 hours, over 100 new ideas were proposed.'"

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yeah!

  2. The true problem is X by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    X11 protocol was writen long ago for effective (ashynchronous communication) between terminal consoles and servers. Note that at the time, whole mindset of personal computers was different. Companies had huge powerful mainframes and just connected to them via their simple consoles.
    X11 worked great in that aspect... was perfect asynchronous protocol that allowed for reasonably fast GUI.
    But then desktop market exploded and everyone had powerful computer on their desk. And X11 just isn't designed to work well in this situation. The client-server architecture of X is just overhead in most cases. (Tell me, how many times did you attach to remote Xserver? - and with fast internet lines this could be done via VNC easily) The next thing is X11 protocol itself, the asynchronous design makes programming for X a terrible experience and just creates more problems than it solves (and it solves absolutelly nothing when it xserver and xclient are on same computer).

    All in all... the X window system simply sucks for modern desktop. The whole unix (and especially linux) community should start working on new small and fast GUI framework that is designed to work well on desktops.
    And no, there is no possible way to fix X11. The only way is to do it from scratch... or pickup some projects that didn't take from the ground, because lack of support.

    http://www.std.org/~msm/common/WhyX.pdf