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| 4,273,291 lines of code, that's the size of
| the KDE core modules, which are released as
| the official KDE software distribution, as
| of today, the numbers generated using David
| A. Wheeler's SLOCCount.
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http://blog.cornelius-schumacher.de/2009/10/4273291-lines-of-code.html
The Two Elephant Problem
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| There are a number of strategies to
| approaching the two elephant problem. The
| "push the new elephant in, in one go"
| approach is the most radical and
| disruptive. A new version of the project is
| presented to the community, complete and
| ready to roll, and it is up to the
| community to accept the changes. The danger
| for the project though is that the first
| elephant may decide to leave. This was the
| approach taken by the KDE developers when
| they committed to creating KDE 4.0. The
| backlash saw many users sit back on older
| versions of KDE or look for alternative
| desktops. It is only now, after a number of
| subsequent releases, that KDE is winning
| back friends.
|
| Another approach is to mitigate the
| disruption by disassembling the new
| elephant and introduce it bit by bit into
| the room, with the hope that the community
| will adopt the new elephant parts as their
| own. The problem with this approach is that
| it is very hard to disassemble elephants,
| let alone reassemble them, and any vision
| for the new version may not survive the
| rebuilding process. A Frankenstein elephant
| may work, but the elegance of the original
| plans could well be lost and new parts may
| well be rejected. This is partly the
| approach of the GNOME developers, who have
| delivered a preview version of the GNOME
| Shell, a highlight of the proposed GNOME
| 3.0, in version 2.28. According to some
| reports, this is a hard to get working
| preview and as such the effort to get it
| running may outweigh the benefits of the
| early preview.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/The-Two-Elephant-Problem--/features/114441
Recent:
KDE 4.3: Boom baby!
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| Stability has gradually improved to the point where
| I no longer have any problems at all. KDE boots
| fast and without issue. Applications donât crash,
| except for the printer applet after one update,
| which was immediately remedied in the next. Kwin
| effects are fast and leave no artifacts. KDE 4 is
| stable.
|
| Configuration-wise, things have improved too.
| Config options have treacled back into KDE 4, and
| while it still might not be up to the standard set
| by its predecessor, itâs getting there.
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http://celettu.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/kde-4-3-boom-baby/
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