Re: Embrace The World
Reading planet feed today in aKregator, i stumbled upon J. Riddell’s post. And, uhm. I must disagree… Having KDE on winders is killing the motivation kde could give anyone to switch away from winders. So, uhm, see “aseigo’s blog”:http://aseigo.blogspot.com on that, i must say i mostly agree there. As for the comfort you could gain on windows, just open up a remote KDE session. Or get over it. Or something. It’s not like you had to run the apps locally (see NoMachine NX or just plain old Cygwin X11 server.
And now on to the HAL and DBUS thing. I am not known for being a fan of those pieces of software, you may know. The fact is, DBUS is just a NIH clone of DCOP, really. Why should we (KDE) now go and adopt it? We can surely add those few features we are missing DBUS has, yeah. Or, wait! GTK+ is LGPL, let’s switch to GTK+!!! Why would we stay with the Qt which is so non-standard. And for that matter, C++ sucks so let’s use plain C. Uhm… Maybe we should join GNOME team instead. Blah blah. No thanks, i stay with seasoned KDE tech. There is nothing but buzz to DBUS, HAL and whatevah. It’s new and overmarketed. Reminds me of a certain Redmond-based software company (the strategy is called embrace and extend). Open source doesn’t help much either (since reimplementing it with a dose of sanity will surely get you flamed to hell, want to bet?).
Well ‘nuff ranting… Have some fun, go read the log of “Bug 97769”:http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97769 aka “Emperor bug” aka “The world sucks”.