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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: New special effects library
From:       "koos vriezen" <koos.vriezen () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-12-19 11:58:22
Message-ID: d4e708d60612190358s4369defakc72917c15b7e3253 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2006/12/19, Zack Rusin <zack@kde.org>:
[..]
> It matters to the developers of applications that those users will be using
> and in my experience new developers would appreciate a lot more having
> libraries names that give a clue about their functionality. "How do I add
> special effects in KDE? Use Wheepeeeeeeeeeee library. What about multimedia?
> Phonon. Hardware? Solid. Telephony? Decibel." At which point do you go "wtf
> were these people thinking?" =)

For someone with a physics background, these names do describe the
functionality. Only by plasma I have some trouble. Maybe it's the
plasma TV that was metaphor.

Koos
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