On Montag, 6. November 2017 17:12:31 CET Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > Hi Martin, > > Am Freitag, 3. November 2017, 21:30:19 CET schrieb Martin Koller: > > I'd like to announce an application I've implemented over the last few weeks > > - liquidshell > > Congrats to the achievement. It surely feels good to run a workspace one has > created one themselves :) > > While myself I will choose Plasma over liquidshell due to my needs and > expectations of certain features, I can see that liquidshell would satisfy > those persons who need or want just a simple hard-coded shell following a > well-known UI design & concept, yet stay with the usual tools and apps from > the KDE software world, ideally perfectly integrated with the workspace > (think > filemanager, terminal, text editor, etc). People like obviously yourself :) > So > those persons might be surely happy about you sharing your work with them. > > My hopes for liquidshell as another project under the KDE community umbrella: > * improvements for shared middleware, perhaps even introducing some more > where it makes sense to share between Plasma, liquidshell & others > (pushing for more clear UI-core separation, which in theory is for good) > libtm might be one such thing, the weather data provider system also calls > for being shared code with Plasma (and e.g. the Marble weather plugin) > * another testing ground for protocols & standards in development > * make more obvious that "KDE" is about a community, not a certain software > * give perhaps remaining trinity desktop developers and other > Plasma-no-Qt-jay-fans a new center for their goals and as result also new > contributors for the shared middleware, tools and apps (at least for their > current QtWidgets UI variant ;) ) > > Re: gosh, yet another workspace > In a perfect world everybody would join work on the one true golden workspace > solution, reality is that there is no such one-workspace-which-fits-all. Not > to forget the mythical person-month issue. > > And if people rather go and write their own software instead of joining > existing projects, it should be the projects asking themselves why they have > not been attractive enough in the first place. > Telling people instead "you should not do X, but Y" is rather the opposite of > what Free Software is about. Even when first saying "Your are free, but". > > I applaud you, Martin, for managing to solve your needs yourself and for > sharing the results with the rest of the world, instead of keeping them for > yourself. > And as KDE community we can feel honored you trust us to be the best place > for > further development of your software, instead of going github or elsewhere.
thanks for the appreciation > Re: liquidshell as name > When I read liquidshell I first thought about something very dynamic, highly > animated. So not sure "liquid" is the best term to use in the name. But then > we all know naming is hard, good luck with it :) This was a tough one. really not easy to select a sensible name. I was considering "solidshell" but Solid has already a meaning in the KDE world. -- Best regards/Schöne Grüße Martin A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q: Why is top posting bad? () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ - against proprietary attachments Geschenkideen, Accessoires, Seifen, Kulinarisches: www.lillehus.at
