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Desktop Summit: Plasma ActiveDesktop Summit: Plasma ActivePosted Aug 18, 2011 12:42 UTC (Thu) by walex (subscriber, #69836)In reply to: Desktop Summit: Plasma Active by kragilkragil2 Parent article: Desktop Summit: Plasma Active
«People seem to want simple, predictable, fast and well animated UI»
That may be true, but a lot of sw development is motivated not by what users want, but what programmers think will look good on a portfolio or resume to get a new better job.
That's one of the major pushes for "featuritis" in open source/freedom software projects. Being a "plumber" or "janitor" who maintains a stable application whose author has grown bored with it and who has already reaped the "kudos" for it is not something a lot of people want to invest in; they want to invest in being the authors of new flashy features that look good in their portfolio or resume.
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Desktop Summit: Plasma Active Posted Aug 18, 2011 19:37 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] Much simpler: It is hard and boring to maintain stuff, while it is exciting and fun to play around with new things. No need to factor resumées in.
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