Comments on: Not Invented Here illustrated (here)

By: numerodix

numerodix — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 21:56:21 +0000

I’m not saying themes should be defined in terms of code either, I’d prefer a portable standard myself.

But as to your scenario, that’s why we do open source. A theme like that wouldn’t get very far before someone blew the whistle and word would spread.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 04:00:17 +0000

Until someone sends you a theme which has a line of code erasing your home directory that is. I’m not sure I like that idea.

By: Daniel Aleksandersen

Daniel Aleksandersen — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 14:17:00 +0000

I just want to say that the Gajim theme must be a whole lot cleverer than other developers as they got a whole lot more done with much less code than the other clients.

By: tante

tante — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 04:14:36 +0000

The comment on the Kopete syntax is absolutely right.

When the description language for your problem is more complex than the problem itself, the language is not worth being used.
That is something many people who are brainwashed in UML/Java/XML-university lectures often forget: “Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem”, Occam’s Razor.