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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Kross Scripting - Why is it cool?
From:       "Samuel Harvey" <kephnosanagennao () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-12-11 23:06:18
Message-ID: 895a9bd10612111506xd0b120csadf58e6a5f476e0e () mail ! gmail ! com
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A few ideas I had:

--Krita--
	- Take some of the grunt work out of repetitive graphic design
		+ Automation of edge rounding (web design graphics)
--KOffice--

	- MS Office has 'feature bloat', and (supposedly) 80% of users use 20%
	  of the features.
	- MS can't really streamline Office, because no one uses the same 20%!
Result:
	- MS Office has tons of lovely little gadgets and geegaws
		+ Each of which has a user somewhere who cannot live without it
	- This creates a problem for competing office suites
		+ Because in order to take MS Office head-on:
			They have to develop mountains of features.
Here's where Kross comes in.
	- Reduces the load of development of non-essential features on the core
	  developers
		+ Gives the core devs more time to focus on nuts-n-bolts
		  (stability, speed)
	- Core devs can also implement new ideas using Kross
		+ They can use speedy interpreted languages (Python, Ruby) for
		  prototyping
		+ Figure out if people use/like it enough to reimplement it in a
		  faster (runtime) language
	- Once there is a large repository of useful scripts:
		+ Users/companies can pick the 20% that they actually use!
		+ The result? Fewer buttons and menu options to get lost in ->
less time wasted digging around in menus
	- Makes it possible for companies to add necessary features to KOffice
	  without getting into source code
		+ Allows 'custom' KOffice setups to stay on KOffice upgrade
		  trains
			x 'Custom' KOffices don't have to be maintained by
			  unofficial developers from the ground up
			x Only custom scripts have to be maintained
			x Result?
				o An office suite customized to your needs for
				  less $$$
				o You get all the advances made by the official
				  devs while only having to pay for script main-
				  tenance
--
Samuel Harvey
 
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