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KAMiKAZOW

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    Comment #7995957

    The situation is that a CLA is still required. Personally, I don't care (I'm just a consumer who is not affected by the CLA). Others care and insulting them as "People who don't kn…

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    Comment #7993431

    Not everybody likes Qt's CLA.

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    Comment #7993421

    GTK runs on Linux with X11, Wayland, and probably even some BSDs. Technically that qualifies as cross-platform.

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    Comment #7881004

    > I bet i3 needs a little tinkering too. It needs a lot of tinkering once Wayland is the accepted standard.

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    Comment #7879731

    They can use the key. They just don't change default keyboard shortcuts during a release cycle (first generation Plasma precedes both Unity and Gnome Shell).

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    Comment #7879716

    The CPU thing is either a bug or file indexing is not yet complete (although that should not take more than a few hours). How much RAM is utilized depends on the components you loa…

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    Comment #7879706

    The focus for Plasma 5.0 is -- for the most part -- the port to Qt 5, not adding many new features (although there are a few new ones). Most new features will appear in subsequent …

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    Comment #7879688

    People who develop desktop themes are NOT the same who program PIM software.

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    Comment #7879625

    Kubuntu constantly ships pre-release software. One example in the current "stable" LTS is this touchpad config panel: http://imgur.com/JIuCNqg

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    Comment #7877464

    I bet your voice is better heard over at the VDG forum on kde.org ;-)

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    Comment #7877456

    Canonical never contributed much to KDE. Yes, a few bits here and there but overall mostly negligible. Blue Systems OTOH is a big KDE contributor. Things like KDE Search improved a…

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    Comment #7877372

    Actually more optimization is taking place than visual refreshes. Porting the stuff to Qt5 (esp. QtQuick2) should speed everything up on non-ancient PCs. Visual refreshes are just …

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    Comment #7877364

    It's mainstream in the sense that the Gnome community fragmented so much in recent years (see Mate and Cinnamon "spin offs") that these days Xfce has roughly the same mind share as…

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    Comment #7877359

    You link to a blog and yet you apparently don't read it. KDE System Settings is being redisigned as well. Just scroll down a bit: http://wheeldesign.blogspot.fi/2014/05/system-sett…