Akademy 2008 - Day 1 (KDE.news) [LWN.net]

KDE.news has a report of the first day of Akademy the annual KDE desktop summit. Akademy is being held August 9-15 in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium. The report covers various talks from day one, including the keynote by Frank Karlitschek: "After this history lesson, Frank started to talk about our project - KDE. And our community. He argued our community should be what makes us special - after all, it's what drives us. If you look at the default KDE desktop - you can't help but wonder: where is the community? Why isn't there a 'KDE users nearby' Plasmoid? Could the agenda in Kontact be filled with local KDE and F/OSS related events? Brainstorming further, Frank talked about many other parts of KDE which could be improved to facilitate involvement from the community."

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Akademy 2008 - Day 1 (KDE.news)

Posted Aug 11, 2008 21:04 UTC (Mon) by mrshiny (subscriber, #4266) [Link]

I only speak for myself, but frankly I don't want my computer to connect me to the "KDE
Community".  I use KDE because of its technical excellence, not because I feel kinship with
the other users.  I want a desktop, not facebook.

And any attempt to automatically integrate my desktop with the "community" had better be A)
secure and non-privacy-violating, and B) convenient.  Currently I have Amarok running on a
media pc and when Amarok crashes (daily) it tries to send a stack trace to the devs.  I
appreciate the sentiment but sometimes I have multiple kmail compose-email windows open, all
trying to send mail.  Nevermind that kmail isn't configured on that pc, since my media pc
doesn't send email.  There are a million ways this feature could be made easier to use (http
post the stack trace) and why can't it be disabled from the UI?  Any new "community" features
had better be better integrated than this one.

Akademy 2008 - Day 1 (KDE.news)

Posted Aug 12, 2008 7:50 UTC (Tue) by aseigo (guest, #18394) [Link]

yes, all these features will be most absolutely of the "opt in" nature.

not everyone will want them (or even be allowed to use them), and we understand that. if you
are 
one of those people, just ignore this set of features as they appear and pretend they don't
exist as, 
for you, they won't. easy =)


p.s. if your Amarok is crashing daily, you may want to check which player backend you are
using and 
that you are using the latest stable Amarok release; daily crashes are not particularly
normal.

Akademy 2008 - Day 1 (KDE.news)

Posted Aug 12, 2008 17:46 UTC (Tue) by mrshiny (subscriber, #4266) [Link]

I don't want to go offtopic about Amarok, but in any case I use my distro's Amarok (Fedora 8).
It's probably not up to date and the crash might be fedora related.  My main problem is that
this feature is annoying, unwanted, and non-disablable as far as I can tell.  

Also I hope too much energy isn't spent working on features I don't want and won't use but,
hey, I'm only one user and if other people will use these features, go nuts :)