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Subject: Suggestion Box? ATTN: Dre
From: James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date: 2003-05-15 20:02:09
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I would really like to contribute to the KDE project.
I am a IT professional currently on disability. I currently don't
know C++ although I can write programs in C although I must admit that
I don't completely understand C programing (some of it I don't even
want to understand). For reasons that I'm not going into except to
say that I have CFS/FM, I do not feel that I am currently able to
write code. However, I do know programing and would like to help.
I suspect that many of you may not understand what I am talking about
since it is a common misconception that writing code is equivalent to
programing -- that if you have learned a computer language that you
have learned programing. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Despite the fact that I do not write code, I could still help with
programing. Why would I be any help? Because programs need to be
designed before they are coded. It is the hacker mentality to
immediately start coding. I have seen several projects on:
http://apps.kde.com
that were well coded but were not designed first and therefore didn't
work.
I had started going through the huge backlog of bugs. But, I haven't
done much of this lately because of poor health. I was going to start
on it again but couldn't help thinking that the 'arogrant developer's
that quickly closed some of the bugs that I submitted might also like
to dig through the huge backlog of bugs (some over a year old).
Perhaps LIFO is more 'fun' than FIFO. Or, perhaps they just like
being disrespectful. I say disrespectful because I think (perhaps
wrongly) that a mature IT professional should get some respect from
self taught hackers half his age.
But, to my question: Where is the suggestion box? And. no I don't
mean submitting a 'feature request' bugs. Somewhere KDE needs to be
designed and suggestions need to be discussed. I realize that this is
contrary to what I see. What I see seems antithetical to Open Source
-- a rather closed and insular world where those in that world know
that they are right about everything and do not want any input from
the outside; certainly not from users.
If you doubt this, please see some of my recent postings.
1. [PATCH] kdebase for 'startkde'
I guess nobody understands that a big chunk of the: 'startkde' script
that supposedly deals with fonts doesn't work correctly and is
incompatible with FontConfig.
2. MIME types: inode
Lauri Watts was nice. But, only suggested that I do something other
than what I wanted to do.
3. Icon priority: hicolor vs. ???????
I am unable to really understand kde@arnoldarts.de's remarks:
> Icons in the standard-theme have precedence and the standard-theme is
> crystalsvg.
but I get the impression that he understands this a LOT less than I
do. Or perhaps he was just being rude.
It all three cases, I posted a follow up which was not answered.
So, my question is, is this (kde-devel) the correct place for such
suggestions? If not, does it exist? Where? And, if not, would KDE
consider creating such a list?
I also wonder if it was that nobody actually understood what I was
talking about or do the members of the list just want for me to go
away and leave those 'inside' to themselves.
As I said, I would really like to help with the project and I feel
that I could contribute a lot.
--
JRT
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