Re: GTK, KDE, GNOME, etc and standard error

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From: dom (Dominic Mitchell)
Subject: Re: GTK, KDE, GNOME, etc and standard error
Date: 11:34 on 17 Oct 2006
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:00:09PM -0700, jrodman@xxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx wrote:
> Modern toolkit authors seem to be suffering from some kind of cargo cult
> mentality.  They noticed that a datastream existed for finding out about
> unusual conditions, and decided that this data channel is actually a
> good place to put any and all possible messages relating to potential
> problems which may not even exist or matter.  Thus, in a modern KDE or
> GTK/GNOME application, standard error no longer actually represents
> errors.  It in fact is full of status of lunched subdaemons, errors
> parsing some tree of mime types 8 libraries away from your application,
> warnings about slightly incorrect type declarions, complaints about
> buttons that are slightly the wrong size, and so on.

I love the phrase "lunched subdaemons".  It seems to mandate daemons
that are out to lunch, which I suspect is more than a few of them.

-Dom

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