Aaron Seigo
aseigo.blogspot.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Aaron Seigo, a KDE and Plasma developer, writes about free software, desktop design, multi-process architectures, and Plasma Active devices.
What HN saysHN links it for KDE history, such as the slow adoption of QML in Plasma and the blunt 4.0 release notes.
25HN people shared it
8linked it in comments
35stories submitted
276story points
5 years agolast shared
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Most-shared posts
- 1KDE plasma in 18-24 months?2 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 2More on why the display server does matter2 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 3Spark Tablet up for Preorder Registration2 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 4Ending the cults of personality in free software1 people · 64 points · first shared 2012 · 52 comments on HN
- 5Costs of multi-process architectures1 people · 59 points · first shared 2014 · 48 comments on HN
- 6Ubuntu Phone, Jolla Sailfish and KDE Plasma Active to share API?1 people · 42 points · first shared 2013 · 2 comments on HN
- 7Green processes: multiple process architectures for everyone1 people · 40 points · first shared 2014 · 6 comments on HN
- 8Vivaldi/Spark Tablet OS-images now available for download1 people · 17 points · first shared 2012 · 14 comments on HN
- 9First Linux based tablet featuring KDE Plasma Active revealed, called "Spark"1 people · 8 points · first shared 2012 · 3 comments on HN
- 10Spark tablet pre-order registration is now open1 people · 4 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 11Plasma Workspaces 4.11: A long term release1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 12Four paths1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 13Spark tablet rebranded as Vivaldi due to trademark issues1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 14Founding philosophers1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 15KDE's Aaron Seigo explaining why he's paying email service MyKolab.com1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
moondowner · 2013-02-06
They started migrating several releases before 4.10, maybe that's why.
To sum it up, I'll paste this: "In short, QML makes it very easy to write fluid user interfaces, while retaining speed. The advantages expand well beyond the mobile application sphere, and represent a new way to do GUIs." http://jontheechidna.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/my-thoughts-on-qml-and-t…
QML is part of QtQuick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QML
Aaron Seigo also had some good points on his blog (If I remember well) but I couldn't find them now. Check his blog nevertheless, it's worth it: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/
md8z · 2021-10-29
Yes. KDE has been slowly adopting it for 11 years (!) now: https://aseigo.blogspot.com/2010/10/plasma-in-18-24-months.html
emilsedgh · 2019-03-04
Not really. Take a look at this blog post written right before the 4.0 release by kdesktop's maintainer who founded Plasma:
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/01/talking-bluntly.html
To quote:
KDE 4.0.0 is our "will eat your children" release of KDE4, not the next release of KDE 3.5. The fact that many already use it daily for their desktop (including myself) shows that it really won't eat your children, but it is part of that early stage in the release system of KDE4. It's the "0.0" release. The amount of new software in KDE4 is remarkable and we're going the open route with that.
shmerl · 2014-08-14
An interesting post on this subject by Aaron Seigo:
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2014/07/one-singular-sensation-your-email.h…
milliams · 2014-04-07
How would people compare this to Improv? http://makeplaylive.com http://aseigo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/introducing-improv.html
throwaway812 · 2014-04-06
Competition with what? Windows, OS X? Xorg?
Edit: Can't seem to reply to child, but Mir isn't really a credible competitor (See: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2014/03/more-on-why-display-server-does-mat… . Unfortunately Mir seems to be mostly NIH; everyone else is cooperating on Wayland.)
bkor · 2014-03-25
It is not just technology, see the addition by Aaron Seigo at http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2014/03/more-on-why-display-server-does-mat… I also wrote a blogpost about it: http://blogs.gnome.org/ovitters/2014/03/25/on-change-management-and-di… but then more stressing on ideas from change management theory vs the approach Canonical seems to be taking.
peterpeters · 2012-03-23
here is the post http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2012/02/spark-pre-orders-closed.html