Re: KDevelop Again!!

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>Al> I've been using KDevelop recently for some MPEG - related
>Al> work, mainly with fourier series and stuff like that, all
>Al> command line stuff as well, non of this GUI nonsense ;)

> Hey, you wouldn't happen to have an MP3 cutter that works on slices
> out of the middle? mp3asm doesn't :-( (I'm recording my lectures,
> and I'd like to cut them into little pieces so my non-native-speaking
> students can punch a button in the HTML lecture notes and listen to 5
> minutes of lecture near that topic.) Of course I can just use DD, but
> that isn't tidy ;-)

Funnily enough, the MPEG work I'm doing is related to on-line lectures and
distance learning. But, no, I don't have an MP3 cutter I'm afraid, I'm
going the other way: preprepared graphics audio -> video.

> BTW, GUI may be nonsense, but the artistic types can't handle command
> line, and they will use very bad tools with a comfortable interface.

It was meant slightly tongue-in-cheek ;))

> This is a big problem in fonts for Linux, especially the complex
> Oriental character sets.

Yes, I can imagine. I thank the powers that be every time I use the
computer that I was born to an English-speaking nation..

> Specify, design, review, ANNOUNCE, code, review, build, RELEASE.
> Do it in that order, and people will be amazed at how quickly you can
> build software.

Is that a little dig at those who announce first? (Can't think who you may
be referring to there..) Seriously though, I think you're right - both KDE
GNOME don't announce stuff generally until they've at least started
serious work on it...

Cheers,

Alex.

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