I was reading your post and mostly agreeing with it, until this sentece came up:
People want fun, easy to play, but hard to master, games. Sony and MS are going after their shrinking audience, and the rest of the world is waiting for something like the Wii, which will be affordable, accessable, innovative, and it looks like will have some hella fun games.
David Faure wrote this about the OASIS format support in KOffice:
Actually, I'm aiming at full OASIS support in KOffice-1.4 already, at least for KWord. We're not far from it already.
Someone mistook this as a statement that kword will have all openoffice's features. Faure then clarified:
...
KWord certainly doesn't have all the features that openoffice writer has.
Sorry for my possibly misleading sentence then:
I meant loading and saving 100% of KWord's features using OASIS, so that OASIS can really be used as a native file format for KWord (although it won't be the default one in 1.4, to be on the safe side; if enough people test it I can maybe make it a hidden option though).
When you open a file produced by kword in ooo, or the other way round, even when using OASIS, you have to be aware that features supported by only one of the apps will obviously not work in the other, there's no way around that; so I obviously recommend sticking to the common set of features (i.e. using kword to write the document:).
The simple reason is that KDE has to be portable across multiple systems, and anything in/dev is inherently OS dependent. There is however, a KIO Fuse Gateway which intends to enable all applications to access KIO slaves.
See http://kde.ground.cz/tiki-index.php?page=KIO+Fuse+ Gateway
If you think KDE is lacking a standardized general user accesible IPC port, you obviously haven't heard of DCOP, which can be used to control programs from the command line (with the dcop utility), python or perl scripts, C++ programs, etc. and is easy to add support for.
One thing the Prius really didn't deliver during my test drives was a crowd. I was ready and able to answer questions from curious strangers wherever I stopped. None came. As far as I could tell, no one even gave the car a second look. I was barely even able to detect the occasional first glance.
Perhaps Toyota's public relations campaign has worked so well that curiosity has simply vanished. If you're on one of those months-long waiting lists to buy a Prius, don't worry. The car is still pretty cool and it probably still will be when you get yours.
>More seriously, though, there are plenty of tasks that are complicated enough that they
>can't be scripted. My guess is that you didn't rely on a script to post your comment to/.,
Yeah, but let's look at your examples:
1) email
I refuse to use any graphical mail app, because my procmail+mutt combination is so much more efficient and accessible from anywhere with ssh.
2) drawing pictures & playing music
I don't play music (except with mpg123/ogg123, which can be scripted). Drawing can be scripted, think of povray. And to reach my level of artistic skills certainly won't be hard:-)
I don't use any file managers (or whatever you organize your pr0n with), but command line. Again,much more efficient. Can be automated in a thousand ways. Stuff like
find . -name \*.doc -exec mv {} $HOME/Docs \;
find . -name \*.mp3 -exec mv {} $HOME/Music \;
Someone will doubtlessly notify me, if the find syntax is wrong.
> You can't ignore the effort that went into designing those programs' UIs just because
>you're so familiar with them that you've stoped noticing.
Yes, I especially like the UI of find with it's simplistic beauty (not!) and mutt's UI is as bare bones as you can get.
Just because you cannot imagine people doing things in ways different from how you do, doesn't mean that they don't. The best feature in KDE is konsole with multiple tabbed consoles. Hooray for command line!
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There's a handy tool for doing that kind of calculations, called 'units'.
A marsbar (65g) has about 294 kilocalories (source: http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/calories/calo rie_counter/chocolate_sweets.htm)
So, we edit /usr/share/misc/units.dat (may wary depending on distro) to add the line:
marsbar 294 kilocalorieWe then launch units:
%units2085 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units
You have: 19 gigajoules
You want: marsbars
* 15435.619
/ 6.4785221e-05
You have:
So apparently, 19 gigajoules of energy equals ~15436 mars bars.
David Faure wrote this about the OASIS format support in KOffice:
Someone mistook this as a statement that kword will have all openoffice's features. Faure then clarified:
...
The simple reason is that KDE has to be portable across multiple systems, and anything in /dev is inherently OS dependent. There is however, a KIO Fuse Gateway which intends to enable all applications to access KIO slaves.
+ Gateway
See http://kde.ground.cz/tiki-index.php?page=KIO+Fuse
Some command line examples of dcop in action:
tell KMail to check for new mail
switch to desktop 4
tell KMail to compact all folders
logout
open new konqueror window with www.kde.org
I am _not_ new here, but it never ceases to amaze me how people are so eager to flame away without any factual support for their rants.
1) email
I refuse to use any graphical mail app, because my procmail+mutt combination is so much more efficient and accessible from anywhere with ssh.
2) drawing pictures & playing music
I don't play music (except with mpg123/ogg123, which can be scripted). Drawing can be scripted, think of povray. And to reach my level of artistic skills certainly won't be hard
I don't use any file managers (or whatever you organize your pr0n with), but command line. Again,much more efficient. Can be automated in a thousand ways. Stuff like
find . -name \*.doc -exec mv {} $HOME/Docs \;
find . -name \*.mp3 -exec mv {} $HOME/Music \;
Someone will doubtlessly notify me, if the find syntax is wrong.
Yes, I especially like the UI of find with it's simplistic beauty (not!) and mutt's UI is as bare bones as you can get.
Just because you cannot imagine people doing things in ways different from how you do, doesn't mean that they don't. The best feature in KDE is konsole with multiple tabbed consoles. Hooray for command line!