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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: Thoughts of a KDE sceptic
From:       "Seak, Teng-Fong" <seak.teng-fong () iname ! com>
Date:       1999-11-18 9:34:44
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Roberto Alsina wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote:
>
> >  The
> > first golden rule of programming: the programmer must put himself in a user's
> > viewpoint / position while making his programmer.  Or else, the programme will be
> > hard to use.  (Thinking that what I've just written is bullshit?  Check it up in
> > books and you'll see)  Now, to do this is very hard, so user feedback is
> > necessary.  However, if an author is so obstinate as to just to listen to himself
> > (well anyway as he likes) he shouldn't expect his programme to be used willingly
> > by others.
>
> You are not giving the authors input on how to improve their programs, you
> are telling them that their programs should not exist. That's a very
> different thing.

     Well, if you change my word to give your own interpretation of what I've written,
the discussion is pointless.  I never said that "their programs should not exist".  As
I've written in another post in which I used a wheel as an example.  Ok, if you don't
understand the figurative example, let me write it in direct way.

     I was asking why, taking the example of xdvi, the K programs aren't based on a
fully matured source code and add Qt widgets to it, more or less like Klyx to make a
consistant look and feel in KDE.  Or even better, they could do like what the Klyx
team is doing right now: they are working with the original lyx team to improve lyx,
and in the near future there'll be a re-convergence of klyx and lyx.  In other words,
I was suggesting that we should combine our efforts rather than separating them.


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