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KDE 4 problems highlight shift from community users to consumers
07-16-2008 11:00 AM
The reasons for the user revolt against KDE 4, which we reported on yesterday, are still being sorted out. They appear to be a complex mixture that includes the assumptions that KDE used in its planning, the rush by distributions to include a release that was not ready for general use, and sensationalism in free software blogs and journalism. One reason that has yet to be discussed is one of the potentially most significant -- the apparent shift in the FOSS user base. Judging from the quickness and thoroughness with which KDE 4 was rejected, the audience for free software seems to have shifted from a small group of knowledgeable users that treasures innovation to a larger one that values convention and familiarity and is actively suspicious of change.



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fixincludes

FIXINCLUDES(1)							  [FIXME: manual]						    FIXINCLUDES(1)

NAME

       fixincludes - Reduce the number of #includes in KDE source files

SYNOPSIS

       fixincludes [-v, --verbose] [-e, --experimental] [-m, --modify] [file] [--help]

DESCRIPTION

       fixincludes tries to reduce the number of #includes in C++ source files. Much of it's processing is specific to KDE sources and so it might
       not work so well with sources for non-KDE applications.

       The following problems are identified by fixincludes:

       o   Including headers that are no longer supported but which exist for compatibility with older Qt/KDE versions;

       o   Including the same file multiple times.

       There is also an experimental mode which tries removing each #include one at a time (with a few exceptions) to see whether the source still
       compiles. Note that this experimental mode will modify the original sources.

       By default the sources will not be modified; the identified problems will simply be written to standard output.

       The list of C++ sources to examine should be given on the command-line. If no files are given, all C++ sources in or beneath the current
       directory will be examined (with the exception of directories whose Makefile.am contains -UQT_NO_COMPAT or -UKDE_NO_COMPAT)

       This utility is part of the KDE Software Development Kit.

OPTIONS

       -v, --verbose
	   Verbose mode. Additional debugging output is written to standard output.

       -e, --experimental
	   Experimental mode, as described above in detail. Note that this option implies --modify.

       -m, --modify
	   As well as writing messages to standard output, actually modify the original sources to fix any problems that were found.

AUTHORS

       fixincludes was written by Dirk Mueller <mueller@kde.org>.

AUTHOR

       Ben Burton <bab@debian.org>
	   Author.

[FIXME: source] 						   April 7, 2003						    FIXINCLUDES(1)