Your "desktop" isn't cryptic and touch to use: it just doesn't have the same feature set.
The word "bloat" is the warning rattle that nature has given the incompetent to warn the rest of the world that their opinion has no technical basis and is, in fact, irrelevant.
If you hadn't been such an ignorant fool... You would have known that the name 'Baloo' was chosen by Vishesh Handa, who is from India. I guess he can be allowed to chose a name from India in any spelling he likes, right? Or is that colonialism too?
250k would pay for about fifty man-months of development. For Gimp, the problem is that they basically decided that money isnt going to help, when they messed up when Mark Shuttleworth promised them a stiffish bounty for getting high bit depth images working.
But I agree, and if you can help me setup a way to get 250k, that would definitely accelerate Krita's development in a very significant way. We've already got quite a bit of experience with sponsored, full-time development.
Recording the voice... That would have been a recipe for disaster twenty years ago already when a Sinology teacher of mine at Leyden University in the Netherlands totally flipped out because a (disabled -- could not write) student recorded her lecture. She was violating her copyright!
"You're learning differential equations to prepare you for lifetime of abstraction, to sharpen your skills in symbolic manipulation."
That sounds a lot like the reason people were once told to learn Latin and Greek -- it would prepare them for a lifetime of thinking.
Me, I think it works. Make everyone go through a course that has enough hard enough things to do and keep the ones who get through.
It's just that maths isn't anything special, or even of more practical use than Latin, it's just a way to distinguish between capable and incapable.
"it's easier for me to oppose their project loudly enough that it will sink"
You don't have that sort of power. No matter how much you shout on slashdot or wherever, you won't be able to sink Wayland through your "opposition".
Well, you don't have any level of credibility either -- making a bunch of posts doesn't give you that. What have you, actually, done to achieve credibility? Have you run a 1000+ repo, 1000+ developer project for free? Have you, before filling this slashdot article with your "I-know-best-these-people-are-morons" posts acquainted yourself with the actual situation at hand?
I am sure you have not, and you have no excuse. You have not bothered to find out things that are elemental before commenting, and there is no excuse.
What, exactly, have you done with your life that makes you fit to judge?
Your remark is typically said by the guy who doesn't understand that a project like KDE is not an organization comparable to a Fortune 500 company. It is not a company. There are no employees. There is no significant income. Everything is done by volunteers. Everything. All of it. It is a large open source community, but it is not a company. There is no one responsible for telling anyone what to to do. There is no one who said "you have this budget", because there is no budget. This is completely outside your experience. There are no "they" who take care of things -- there is just an "us" -- and if you think your experience can be of use, you can be part of the "us", but you won't be paid, and every bit of hardware and bandwidth you use, you'll have to beg for.
And it still works.
Isn't that effing amazing?
"I would also like to point out that the incompetence and arrogance of the KDE team is quite visible once you investigate a bit of their history."
Actually, if you would investigate the history of the KDE sysadmin team you would find out that this handful of volunteers are doing a job that many full-time, well-funded sysadmins cannot rival.
And.. Anyone who talks about "the KDE team" as if it's a single, monolithic entity doesn't know what they're talking about.
"an organization as large as KDE have backups?"
You mean one full-time secretary and a couple of volunteer sysadmins? That's how large KDE's support organization is. How much money do you think KDE has? It is less than 200k euros. That's how large the budget is -- and it has to pay for everything.
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Stop defending the tool. The tool is shit. Start praising the KDE sysadmins who are volunteers, all of them, and who are doing their job better than any professional sysadmin I've ever seen.
Post-Soviet was pretty much free-market. Where individual waiters would lease individual tables in a restaurant to serve, or the output of particular cooks. Sit down at the wrong table in Odessa and you could only order dessert. Free market at its best, no regulations at all, just individuals trying to make the most money.
Fell flat on its face, breaking its teeth, with the result that there are a bunch of super-rich oligarchs.
There is no such thing as a successful free market economy. Heck, just like there has never been a real communist state following Marx precepts, there has never been a real free market economy following Ayn Rand's delusions.
A free market is a delusion, and saying that it would be a solution to anything marks you as deluded.
Ah, right. So the fact that this bug was caught means that the idea that opening the source for lots of people to check out means bugs get caught is false? In other words, the fact that this bug was caught means the idea that bugs get caught is wrong?
Er... You mean movie theatres in the US don't have intermissions? That would mean that people get up all the time to go for a pee. Should be pretty disturbing.
I had a free refill, once, in Europe. In Linkoping airport, where I was allowed to fill my coffee cup again from the can. I was so surprised... Never happened anywhere else.
And given the quality of the coffee, I didn't bother in Linkoping airport either.
Often it's possible to do both. For Krita, which has been around as a QWidget application for more than ten years now, it was possible to make a Qt Quick-based version in about four months with two people: Krita Sketch, which offers almost all the functionality of Krita Desktop, but touch-enable.
Well, you might even amend it to "provides much better implementations of things that are in the STL, , including containers, threads, files, lists etc."
While you smell like someone who's had an abstract exercise in his first year and now knows everything about the problem area, just because you've never been hired to solve any real problems.
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Wow! Well played indeed!
Your "desktop" isn't cryptic and touch to use: it just doesn't have the same feature set. The word "bloat" is the warning rattle that nature has given the incompetent to warn the rest of the world that their opinion has no technical basis and is, in fact, irrelevant.
If you hadn't been such an ignorant fool... You would have known that the name 'Baloo' was chosen by Vishesh Handa, who is from India. I guess he can be allowed to chose a name from India in any spelling he likes, right? Or is that colonialism too?
In the USA. Which is not the whole world... And it's probably not true in the whole of USA either.
Qt and Qt Creator is more than "decent". It's excellent. Especially when compared to Visual Studio -- and yes, I use both, professionally.
250k would pay for about fifty man-months of development. For Gimp, the problem is that they basically decided that money isnt going to help, when they messed up when Mark Shuttleworth promised them a stiffish bounty for getting high bit depth images working. But I agree, and if you can help me setup a way to get 250k, that would definitely accelerate Krita's development in a very significant way. We've already got quite a bit of experience with sponsored, full-time development.
Recording the voice... That would have been a recipe for disaster twenty years ago already when a Sinology teacher of mine at Leyden University in the Netherlands totally flipped out because a (disabled -- could not write) student recorded her lecture. She was violating her copyright!
"You're learning differential equations to prepare you for lifetime of abstraction, to sharpen your skills in symbolic manipulation." That sounds a lot like the reason people were once told to learn Latin and Greek -- it would prepare them for a lifetime of thinking. Me, I think it works. Make everyone go through a course that has enough hard enough things to do and keep the ones who get through. It's just that maths isn't anything special, or even of more practical use than Latin, it's just a way to distinguish between capable and incapable.
"In reality this is not the case, so applications DO use particular display/graphics system peculiarities and therefore there is a difference."
In reality, this actually _is_ the case. Applications DO NOT use particular display/graphics system peculiarities.
"it's easier for me to oppose their project loudly enough that it will sink" You don't have that sort of power. No matter how much you shout on slashdot or wherever, you won't be able to sink Wayland through your "opposition".
Well, you don't have any level of credibility either -- making a bunch of posts doesn't give you that. What have you, actually, done to achieve credibility? Have you run a 1000+ repo, 1000+ developer project for free? Have you, before filling this slashdot article with your "I-know-best-these-people-are-morons" posts acquainted yourself with the actual situation at hand? I am sure you have not, and you have no excuse. You have not bothered to find out things that are elemental before commenting, and there is no excuse. What, exactly, have you done with your life that makes you fit to judge?
Your remark is typically said by the guy who doesn't understand that a project like KDE is not an organization comparable to a Fortune 500 company. It is not a company. There are no employees. There is no significant income. Everything is done by volunteers. Everything. All of it. It is a large open source community, but it is not a company. There is no one responsible for telling anyone what to to do. There is no one who said "you have this budget", because there is no budget. This is completely outside your experience. There are no "they" who take care of things -- there is just an "us" -- and if you think your experience can be of use, you can be part of the "us", but you won't be paid, and every bit of hardware and bandwidth you use, you'll have to beg for. And it still works. Isn't that effing amazing?
"I would also like to point out that the incompetence and arrogance of the KDE team is quite visible once you investigate a bit of their history." Actually, if you would investigate the history of the KDE sysadmin team you would find out that this handful of volunteers are doing a job that many full-time, well-funded sysadmins cannot rival. And.. Anyone who talks about "the KDE team" as if it's a single, monolithic entity doesn't know what they're talking about.
"an organization as large as KDE have backups?" You mean one full-time secretary and a couple of volunteer sysadmins? That's how large KDE's support organization is. How much money do you think KDE has? It is less than 200k euros. That's how large the budget is -- and it has to pay for everything.
Especially backup software.
Stop defending the tool. The tool is shit. Start praising the KDE sysadmins who are volunteers, all of them, and who are doing their job better than any professional sysadmin I've ever seen.
Post-Soviet was pretty much free-market. Where individual waiters would lease individual tables in a restaurant to serve, or the output of particular cooks. Sit down at the wrong table in Odessa and you could only order dessert. Free market at its best, no regulations at all, just individuals trying to make the most money. Fell flat on its face, breaking its teeth, with the result that there are a bunch of super-rich oligarchs. There is no such thing as a successful free market economy. Heck, just like there has never been a real communist state following Marx precepts, there has never been a real free market economy following Ayn Rand's delusions. A free market is a delusion, and saying that it would be a solution to anything marks you as deluded.
Ah, right. So the fact that this bug was caught means that the idea that opening the source for lots of people to check out means bugs get caught is false? In other words, the fact that this bug was caught means the idea that bugs get caught is wrong?
Er... You mean movie theatres in the US don't have intermissions? That would mean that people get up all the time to go for a pee. Should be pretty disturbing.
I had a free refill, once, in Europe. In Linkoping airport, where I was allowed to fill my coffee cup again from the can. I was so surprised... Never happened anywhere else. And given the quality of the coffee, I didn't bother in Linkoping airport either.
Yours. Because your choice has been reduced. And if this continues, there might be no new hardware you can run Linux on. A big loss.
Where I live "public domain" does not exist. The concept has no legal meaning over here.
Often it's possible to do both. For Krita, which has been around as a QWidget application for more than ten years now, it was possible to make a Qt Quick-based version in about four months with two people: Krita Sketch, which offers almost all the functionality of Krita Desktop, but touch-enable.
Well, you might even amend it to "provides much better implementations of things that are in the STL, , including containers, threads, files, lists etc."
While you smell like someone who's had an abstract exercise in his first year and now knows everything about the problem area, just because you've never been hired to solve any real problems.