Weekly edition	Kernel	Security	Distributions	Contact Us	Search
Archives	Calendar	Subscribe	Write for LWN	LWN.net FAQ	Sponsors

The Open Web: KDE frees the web from the browser

Posted Oct 15, 2009 17:54 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576)
In reply to: The Open Web: KDE frees the web from the browser by boudewijn
Parent article: The Open Web: KDE frees the web from the browser

This kind of flaming does nobody any favours, least of all the reputation of the KDE project.

FWIW, the features the OP would like would be extremely difficult (I think impossible) to implement without modifications to screen, except possibly using some deeply ugly hacks, however I do have the following in my bashrc, which the OP *might* find of some use:

function ssh-reagent () {
    for agent in /tmp/ssh-*/agent.*; do
        export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$agent
        if ssh-add -l 2>&1 > /dev/null; then
            echo Found working SSH Agent:
            ssh-add -l
            return
        fi
    done
    . ~/.ssh-agent
    if ssh-add -l 2>&1 > /dev/null; then
        echo Found working SSH Agent:
        ssh-add -l
        return
    fi
    echo Cannot find ssh agent - maybe you should reconnect and forward it?
}

(Log in to post comments)

The Open Web: KDE frees the web from the browser

Posted Oct 15, 2009 18:49 UTC (Thu) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

Flaming? I wouldn't call what I said flaming -- just expressing being fed up with people complaining about completely unrelated things in reaction to announcements.

It's quite the fashion these days to make that sort of remark, but it makes me sick. And it shows a complete lack of understanding of the way a large volunteer-driven free software project works: it is made up of many individuals, who all work on what they find interesting, and any request to reallocate effort from one sub-project to another to gratify the poster is mere pointy-haired-bossiness. Fine, this subproject is of no interest to Mtk -- what's the problem? There are tens of thousands of projects that don't fix Mtk's bugs -- will he or she post a complaint with every announcement?

If mtk is interested in terminal emulation, he or she should get involved. I know it's an unpopular message these days, but it's the only way forward. Pay up or submit patches but don't whine in the comments section of a website.

The Open Web: KDE frees the web from the browser

Posted Oct 15, 2009 19:05 UTC (Thu) by mtk (subscriber, #804) [Link]

any attention (even negative) from someone on the inside is good. no need to rehash the eternal complain vs contribute argument. my point was this: at the end of the day, merging screen into konsole (and into gnome-terminal) would have a greater impact on my every day use than deploying a browser-independent social networking desktop. a power user argument for sure, and thus not generally applicable. but this is LWN after all :-).

The Open Web: KDE frees the web from the browser

Posted Oct 15, 2009 20:13 UTC (Thu) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

I work on a suite of KDE applications, that's true, but I'm no more on the
inside of konsole development or project silk than you -- and I still
don't get why you ask for bug fixing on konsole instead in response to
this announcement instead of, say, an announcement of the next KOffice
beta or Gimp release.