On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:00:09PM -0700, [email protected] 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
