[dundee] Those pesky KDE devs...just a moan

Kris Davidson davidson.kris at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 21:59:36 UTC 2009


Wooo I win buzzword Bingo, on a side note Sony have been installing
MySQL instances on Windows for a while.

Are Gnome or XFCE an option if you don't want to go the ultra minimalist route.

2009/12/10 Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk>:
> Oh, this is why they are doing it!
>
> "The vision of the Social Semantic Desktop defines a user’s personal
> information environment as a source and end-point of the Semantic Web:
> Knowledge workers comprehensively express their information and data with
> respect to their own conceptualizations. Semantic Web languages and protocols
> are used to formalize these conceptualizations and for coordinating local and
> global information access."
>
> Hurrah, we're all saved. Is it me, or did we all miss a meeting?
>
>
>> Yes - the issue is also in finding a desktop that is acceptable to other
>>  users (I'm happy enough with the command-line a lot of the time). I'm not
>>  the only KDE user complaining about this: they seem to have lost the plot
>>  with KDE4.
>>
>> > It is general things like this that have caused my friend to run his
>> >  desktop with 32GB RAM so he can forget about it for a long time.
>> >
>> > I want to do the same, however 32GB on the desktop does not come cheap so
>> > I can't justify it.
>> >
>> > Of course, 32GB per desktop in an office would just be silly unless you
>> >  used the spare resources for something useful e.g. VMs for secure
>> >  browsing.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Sean McRobbie
>>
>
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