24 Jun
2011
24 Jun
'11
2:45 a.m.
On Friday 24 June 2011 06:18:02 Timothy Pearson wrote:
Then please be careful with your word choice. What
you have written here
in the past has, from a native English speaker's point of view, sounded
very antagonistic and competitive.
Here is another example of what I mentioned above. Whether you realize it
or not, the way this statement is phrased it is rather insulting. How an
average English-speaking individual might read this would be as follows:
"Since you claim to have so many resources (which I really don't think you
do) then do what I suggested a long time ago, since I think it is terribly
easy and cannot understand why it is so very hard for you to do."
Is that really what you meant? If not then please say so! I had not
considered that there may be a language issue here.
No, this was written with sarcasm. I know that porting ODF support from
KDE4 is uneasy. But it is of course easier than re-implementing KDE3 support in an office
suite starting from zero.
combined with the
rejection/criticism of our ideas with absolutely no alternatives
presented
or suggestions made.
Well an alternative to dropping KOffice is porting ODF support
from KDE4's KOffice. Do you like this idea? You said you have much of
resources even to reimplement
KDE3 support in Libre Office if it completely changes its interface, so
adding ODF would be just as
to swat a moquito, won't it? To answer your question, yes, I think that is a good
idea. Would you like
to try your hand at it? I probably will not get around to doing so until
the entire TQt4 port is complete and some of the open bugs have been
addressed.
I also have much of the ongoing tasks. First of all it's adding more software
to reach at least 500 packages in KDE:KDE3. Then I will evaluate a possibility
to port Yast2 with Qt3 support from an older openSUSE release. Then I will
probably repair some broken default icon themes of KDE3 (i.e. iKons and so on),
then will probably look into some other annoying bugs of KDE3. I also
want to make the tray to use as much rows as the taskbar does.
There are multiple other tasks, for example, updating weather stations info
(i saw a report on the internet that the weather station for say, Novosibirsk is
outdated and there was a patch but there is some way to automatize this
updating actually).
The project is currently somewhat swamped; once the
TQt4 port is complete
and CMake support has been added, we have enough developer resources to
keep things moving along quickly. However, we are still in the middle of
those two operations and so are not able to absorb as many of the
miscellaneous tasks (such as gcc 4.6 compilation repairs, .odf support,
etc.) as you or I would like. Any help is much appreciated during this
transitional period.