Your "desktop" isn't cryptic and touch to use: it just doesn't have the same feature set. The word "bloat" is the warning rattle that nature has given the incompetent to warn the rest of the world that their opinion has no technical basis and is, in fact, irrelevant.

If you hadn't been such an ignorant fool... You would have known that the name 'Baloo' was chosen by Vishesh Handa, who is from India. I guess he can be allowed to chose a name from India in any spelling he likes, right? Or is that colonialism too?

In the USA. Which is not the whole world... And it's probably not true in the whole of USA either.

Qt and Qt Creator is more than "decent". It's excellent. Especially when compared to Visual Studio -- and yes, I use both, professionally.

250k would pay for about fifty man-months of development. For Gimp, the problem is that they basically decided that money isnt going to help, when they messed up when Mark Shuttleworth promised them a stiffish bounty for getting high bit depth images working. But I agree, and if you can help me setup a way to get 250k, that would definitely accelerate Krita's development in a very significant way. We've already got quite a bit of experience with sponsored, full-time development.

Recording the voice... That would have been a recipe for disaster twenty years ago already when a Sinology teacher of mine at Leyden University in the Netherlands totally flipped out because a (disabled -- could not write) student recorded her lecture. She was violating her copyright!

"You're learning differential equations to prepare you for lifetime of abstraction, to sharpen your skills in symbolic manipulation." That sounds a lot like the reason people were once told to learn Latin and Greek -- it would prepare them for a lifetime of thinking. Me, I think it works. Make everyone go through a course that has enough hard enough things to do and keep the ones who get through. It's just that maths isn't anything special, or even of more practical use than Latin, it's just a way to distinguish between capable and incapable.

"In reality this is not the case, so applications DO use particular display/graphics system peculiarities and therefore there is a difference."

In reality, this actually _is_ the case. Applications DO NOT use particular display/graphics system peculiarities.

"it's easier for me to oppose their project loudly enough that it will sink" You don't have that sort of power. No matter how much you shout on slashdot or wherever, you won't be able to sink Wayland through your "opposition".

Well, you don't have any level of credibility either -- making a bunch of posts doesn't give you that. What have you, actually, done to achieve credibility? Have you run a 1000+ repo, 1000+ developer project for free? Have you, before filling this slashdot article with your "I-know-best-these-people-are-morons" posts acquainted yourself with the actual situation at hand? I am sure you have not, and you have no excuse. You have not bothered to find out things that are elemental before commenting, and there is no excuse. What, exactly, have you done with your life that makes you fit to judge?

Your remark is typically said by the guy who doesn't understand that a project like KDE is not an organization comparable to a Fortune 500 company. It is not a company. There are no employees. There is no significant income. Everything is done by volunteers. Everything. All of it. It is a large open source community, but it is not a company. There is no one responsible for telling anyone what to to do. There is no one who said "you have this budget", because there is no budget. This is completely outside your experience. There are no "they" who take care of things -- there is just an "us" -- and if you think your experience can be of use, you can be part of the "us", but you won't be paid, and every bit of hardware and bandwidth you use, you'll have to beg for. And it still works. Isn't that effing amazing?

"I would also like to point out that the incompetence and arrogance of the KDE team is quite visible once you investigate a bit of their history." Actually, if you would investigate the history of the KDE sysadmin team you would find out that this handful of volunteers are doing a job that many full-time, well-funded sysadmins cannot rival. And.. Anyone who talks about "the KDE team" as if it's a single, monolithic entity doesn't know what they're talking about.

"an organization as large as KDE have backups?" You mean one full-time secretary and a couple of volunteer sysadmins? That's how large KDE's support organization is. How much money do you think KDE has? It is less than 200k euros. That's how large the budget is -- and it has to pay for everything.

Especially backup software.