Comments | andrew_j_w: KDE Commit

andrew_j_w

KDE Commit

May 24, 2007 14:45

In order to get my photos from the Editors gig I went to in Camden last night onto Last.fm I had to sign up for a Flickr account. I've been annoyed at my own home grown gallery script for a while, so I thought why not see if Flickr is usable to store all my photos.

My photo album program, KPhotoAlbum, has a Flickr export plugin but I discovered ( Read more... )

gig, geek, photos, flickr, last.fm, programming, kde

Comments 4

nmitchell May 24 2007, 14:36:14 UTC

Woohoo about the job interview!

nmitchell May 26 2007, 14:55:29 UTC

Reading the diff on your patch makes me remember why C/C++ suck, they are way too low level!

andrew_j_w May 26 2007, 15:02:38 UTC

I don't know why the plugins are written in C++, they should make language bindings and write them in a more suitable language.

Fortunately it's all using Qt, so it's better than raw C++, but it's still pretty ugly. I'm glad I only changed 10 lines :-)

Did you need to have a shower after reading that code, because you felt so dirty? It is open source code designed to run on Linux after all ;-)

nmitchell May 26 2007, 15:07:04 UTC

I don't know why anything is written in C++. A few bit/byte switching operations in C, and then everything else should be in a higher level language.

There is nothing wrong with open source, and I am always quite impressed how good KDE work. Its just GNOME that looks like people who have found religion, and lost rational thought.