January 2009
Beginner
430 pages
15h 34m
English
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Chapter 12. When the Bazaar Sets Out to Build Cathedrals
How ThreadWeaver and Akonadi were shaped by the KDE community and how they shape it in turn
| Principles and properties | Structures | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Versatility | ✓ | Module | |
| ✓ | Conceptual integrity | ✓ | Dependency |
| ✓ | Independently changeable | ✓ | Process |
| Automatic propagation | Data access | ||
| ✓ | Buildability | ||
| ✓ | Growth accommodation | ||
| ✓ | Entropy resistance |
Introduction
The KDE project is one of the biggest Free Software[58] efforts in the world. Over the course of 10 years, its very diverse community of contributors—students, seasoned professionals, hobbyists, companies, government agencies, and others—has produced a vast amount of software addressing a wide variety of issues and tasks, ranging from a complete desktop environment with a web browser, groupware suite, file manager, word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation tools, to highly specialized applications, such as a planetarium tool. The basis of these applications is provided by a collection of shared libraries that are maintained by the project collectively. Beyond their primary intended use by the members of the KDE developer community itself, they are also used by many third-party developers, both commercial and noncommercial, to produce thousands of additional applications and components.
Although the initial focus of the KDE project was to provide an integrated desktop environment for free Unix operating systems, notably GNU/Linux, the scope of KDE has broadened considerably, and much of its ...
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