Introduction, questions

[John Richard Moser]

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Peter Damoc wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:38:33 -0500, John Richard Moser
> <nigelenki at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> Alistair Davidson wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there.
>>>
>>> I'm interested in getting involved in Ubuntu development. I've got no
>>> experience in putting together distributions or packaging, but I'm a
>>> programmer -I'm teaching myself to use Glade at the moment- and a
>>> layman's expert on usability. I've previously been involved in the KDE
>>> Usability project, I can't claim to have contributed much there but I
>>> learned an awful lot (some of it about how not to do things, but that's
>>> another rant...).
>>>
>>
>> KDE is the embodiment of how not to do things.  Honestly I hope either
>> the KDE project or the Qt toolkit dies, because it really gets on my
>> nerves that some programs are Qt and look different.  When I tried to
>> use KDE, I was consistently annoyed that the GTK apps didn't fit into
>> the environment.
> 
> 
> I know is OT, but... hey... I cannot help it either:
> 
> There was this blacksmith who had a son, the son was kinda lazy and
> irresponsible always breaking things and complaining how other kids have
> more. When he reached a certain age his father, the blacksmith told him:
> " You don't know the meaning of work, you must learn it in order to
> become a man so... leave this house and return only when you have a gold
> piece to show me."
> The boy left, went to his mother and told her that father means to throw
> him out if he doesn't produce a gold piece. The mother hold him close to
> her bosom, kissed him and gave him a gold piece from her savings.
> The boy went to his father and said "Look father, a gold piece!" Father
> took the gold piece and threw it in the forge. The boy looked speechless
> as the coin melted. Father said... "You still don't know the meaning of
> work, leave and return only when you have earned a gold piece"... The
> boy went again to his mother but she was already warned not to give him
> any more coins so he went to a neighbor and helped him feeding horses
> and shoveling manure in stables. After some time the neighbor paid him a
> gold piece for all the work he has done . The boy took the coin to his
> father and said with a smile on his face "Look father, a gold piece!"
> Father took the gold piece and threw it in the forge. The boy screamed
> "Noooo" and picked the coin from the fire, burning his hand. Father said
> "Now you know the meaning of work, now I can be proud saying that you
> are my son!"
> 
> Bitching about other people's work is a sin I also committed too many
> times... however... that doesn't make it right.
> Show us your work! Show us how are you justified to say "Die QT, Die!"
> 

Hundreds of people work on GNOME, thousands of people use GNOME.  KDE
still lives.  Something like what 95% of Linux runs on GTK+?  Qt still
exists.

Obviously there's no work I can do to kill off the toolkit invented by
trolls.  At the very least, no legal/moral work  :)

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