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KDE 4: the ultimate business desktop? (Computerworld)

Posted Dec 20, 2006 5:54 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: KDE 4: the ultimate business desktop? (Computerworld) by khim
Parent article: KDE 4: the ultimate business desktop? (Computerworld)

Sorry. Hit the wrong button.

Note: the kernel module is reality now and GREP can use it - so now you can use one syntax for KDE, another one for GNOME and third one for command line, KDE, and GNOME, but... distributions don't support it because there are supported "GNOME way" and supported "KDE way"...

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KDE 4: the ultimate business desktop? (Computerworld)

Posted Dec 20, 2006 15:58 UTC (Wed) by mrshiny (subscriber, #4266) [Link]

The question isn't whether 1% of KDE users use KDE on two different platforms; the question is whether KDE can implement a feature on all its supported platforms.

KDE != Linux.

KDE must, as a stated requirement, work on more than one platform, some of which are quite different (I believe KDE4 is expected to work on Windows). This means that they can't rely on FUSE, since FUSE isn't present on all their platforms.

Anyway, I'm frankly quite surprised that you'd rather have KDE NOT implement network-transparent IO slaves. That's rather like saying that a web browser shouldn't be able to access the web because GREP can't. I suppose you don't like using SSH because you can't just grep a file that's on a remote SFTP server? Maybe we should stop implementing any new file storage locations until they can be implemented in a file-system on any platform.

KDE 4: the ultimate business desktop? (Computerworld)

Posted Dec 20, 2006 16:53 UTC (Wed) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

So KDE can implement an incompatable filesystem later on all platforms and be wrong everywhere. Hooray.

This is like Mozilla chrome looking wrong on every platform.

When will developers ever learn? Never.