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Re: KDE for Developers

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so... which one is night and which is day? and which one is better? :)

KDE is better of course. This coming from someone that once upon a time did Gtkmm advocacy. http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/cccuj2000.html#Pinto:20...

I agree, but you have put it in opposite order in your first statement so I had to ask for clarification :)

Re: KDE for Developers

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Guys, while KDE is undoubtedly best thing happened to Linux, for me the development... or overall problem of developing software for Linux it he Linux itself: lack of registry, COM, permissions, interoperability. I understand how hard is it to plan and do all these things. But... but. For example, AFAIR, Kate was integrated as text editor into KDevelop (which I painfully used as main IDE in linux), but it created unb…

Actually D-BUS and DCOP are much better than COM, if Microsoft ever looked into COM like tooling in other platforms, instead they keep rebooting the ATL like experience while ignoring how others have improved upon COM. XPC and Android Binder are also two other examples of better tooling in this area.

I never dug into D-Bus deeply enough, but as a user, for me it caused one big problem: press PrintScreen for > 1 second, have Spectacle hang itself and take dbus with it, making the whole OS inoperable. Reboot Linux, notice post downvoted by linux fanboys.

Edit: I'm a linux user, but I don't idolize it.

Re: KDE for Developers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually D-BUS and DCOP are much better than COM, if Microsoft ever looked into COM like tooling in other platforms, instead they keep rebooting the ATL like experience while ignoring how others have improved upon COM. XPC and Android Binder are also two other examples of better tooling in this area.

I never dug into D-Bus deeply enough, but as a user, for me it caused one big problem: press PrintScreen for > 1 second, have Spectacle hang itself and take dbus with it, making the whole OS inoperable. Reboot Linux, notice post downvoted by linux fanboys. Edit: I'm a linux user, but I don't idolize it.

"0 points". Told you. Unpleasant truth.
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