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The Faces of KDE 4 (Canllaith.org)

Canllaith.org talks with some KDE4 developers. "It's been close to 2 years since the gargantuan task of porting KDE3 to Qt4 started in May 2005, with SVN commit number 411284 by Stephan Kulow. Many thousands of commits later, we're still a long way from any kind of user-accessible preview of KDE4 - but that doesn't mean a lot of work hasn't gone into the code base as it now stands. In this stage of development it's a lot of pain for very little glory, re-designing the next generation KDE from the ground up. It's a task that separates the core developers from the hangers on, and the architects of the new desktop are a pretty dedicated group. There are far too many developers currently active in KDE for me to introduce them all, but here's a quick glance at what a small handful of them are working on for the next major version of KDE." (Found on KDE.News)
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The Faces of KDE 4 (Canllaith.org)

Posted Feb 28, 2007 1:14 UTC (Wed) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346) [Link]

Could you phrase posts like this in a way that doesn't anthropomorphize the Web sites? For example, "Jes Hall of Canllaith.org talks ...."

The Faces of KDE 4 (Canllaith.org)

Posted Feb 28, 2007 4:16 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

I think that it's traditional.

Like you would a Magazine they are treating the website itself as a publication.

People tend say: "Oh, did you see that article from Times about foo?'
Rather then: "oh, did you see that article from John Blow of the Times about foo?"

Both are valid expressions.

Antidisanthromorphizationationalism

Posted Feb 28, 2007 8:05 UTC (Wed) by ldo (subscriber, #40946) [Link]

For example, "Jes Hall of Canllaith.org talks ...."

Actually, Jes Hall is Canllaith.org. :)

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