Re: KDE Goes Wayland

Date	2025-12-17 09:31 -0500
Subject	Re: KDE Goes Wayland
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc
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From	CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge>
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On 2025-12-16 11:42 p.m., vallor wrote:
> At Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:57:02 -0500, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-12-15 10:41 p.m., vallor wrote:
>>> At Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:16:03 -0600, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> bonkmaykr wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> chrisv wrote:
>>>>>> c186282 wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>      Maybe an AI can eventually clean up both and
>>>>>>>      make a best-of system that's not clunky ???
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It wouldn't hurt to ask.  "Hey ChatGPT, clean up X11 and Wayland
>>>>>> to make a best-of system that's not clunky."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Piece of cake!   8)
>>>>>
>>>>> I am not sure what your programming experience is, but asking an
>>>>> AI to write any software that is non-trivial, let alone assist
>>>>> with it, is a waste of time.
>>>>
>>>> I was joking, of course.
>>>
>>> "AI" (which isn't really "AI", it's just an LLM) can help
>>> with some of the "grunt work" of programming.
>>>
>>> My experiment with this was to write a newsreader with
>>> the help of ChatGPT, in Tk/perl.  It works.
>>
>> Is it better than Pan?
> 
> Right now, Pan is better, I'd say.
> 
> But newscamel has one feature that I don't think many newsreaders have,
> which is recording "read" (red) articles by Message-ID.
> 
> That way, no matter which news server you switch to,
> it will accurately indicate read articles.
> 
> I'm thinking maybe I should go back to Pan, and add that feature.
> Issue there is I'm not as strong with C++ as I am with C or perl.
> 

It's just too bad for developers that AI designed that Usenet reader 
faster (and probably better) than they ever could have. Lord knows 
there's a lack of decent newsreaders other than Thunderbird/Betterbird 
in Linux.

-- 
CrudeSausage
John 14:6
Windows is fine.

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Re: KDE Goes Wayland bonkmaykr <bonkyboo@canithesis.org> - 2025-12-12 16:38 -0600
  Re: KDE Goes Wayland chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-12-15 18:16 -0600
    Re: KDE Goes Wayland vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2025-12-16 03:41 +0000
      Re: KDE Goes Wayland Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-12-16 11:50 +0000
        Re: KDE Goes Wayland The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-16 12:12 +0000
      Re: KDE Goes Wayland CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-12-16 09:57 -0500
        Re: KDE Goes Wayland vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2025-12-17 04:42 +0000
          Re: KDE Goes Wayland CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-12-17 09:31 -0500
            Re: KDE Goes Wayland rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-17 19:34 +0000
          Re: KDE Goes Wayland "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-18 14:49 +0100
            Re: KDE Goes Wayland vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2025-12-18 14:27 +0000
              Re: KDE Goes Wayland "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-19 21:46 +0100

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