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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Poll on Linux.com
From:       Mosfet <mosfet () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-01-08 13:15:00
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Hehe, well the problem is that the vast majority of the people voting
are not people who actually know the toolkits, and as regretfully I
found out those who don't have the slightest idea about developing for
KDE/Qt (or GTK, or any of the other toolkits) are out in force. With
these people you cannot present arguments about technical merit, because
they don't know development and can only respond with emotional
outbursts and with what they have been told by others. This does not
make for a good poll on the merits of toolkits ;-) It's not only us that
get misrepresented by something like this, but also the other toolkit
developers such as WxWindows and FLTK who work more on coding than
hyping themselves to those that don't know better. 

John Dean wrote:
> 
> I personally voted for KDE from around 10 diffentent machines just to make
> it even more unrepresentative
> John
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mosfet <mosfet@mandrakesoft.com>
> To: <kde-devel@kde.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2000 6:06 AM
> Subject: Re: Poll on Linux.com
> 
> > Don't worry about this. It's turned into a clueless flamewar by people
> > that don't know any of the toolkits.
> >
> > Alex Zepeda wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Mosfet wrote:
> > >
> > > > There is a poll for GUI toolkits at Linux.com if you would like to
> check
> > > > it out and go vote. Ironically, while KDE won for the favorite desktop
> > > > environment the toolkit that KDE is based on is loosing. Mostly I
> think
> > > > this is due to people not being aware what toolkits are being used for
> > > > the software they like, so go there and give them a clue ;-)
> > >
> > > And this counts for what?  It's like a highschool popularity contest or
> > > something.  Whoop de doo.
> > >
> > > - alex
> >
> > --
> > Daniel M. Duley - Unix developer & sys admin.
> > mosfet@mandrakesoft.com
> > mosfet@kde.org
> > mosfet@jorsm.com
> >
> >

-- 
Daniel M. Duley - Unix developer & sys admin.
mosfet@mandrakesoft.com
mosfet@kde.org
mosfet@jorsm.com

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