Ingo is Wily

so Ingo, in all his wilyness, got me into a debate on kde-core-devel over the new-ish address picker in KMail. turns out his REAL problem is that it is buggy. and he's right: there are several issues with it. some of it can be blamed on classes that were suposed to make it into the libs from kaddressbook that haven't, but there is some work that needs to be done, no doubt about it. getting me into a debate isn't all that hard (sigh) but the truly wily part about it: i've committed to spending some time on that dialog (which i didn't even write; hi Zack!) this week. huzzah! i suppose that's one way to get 3.2 into shape: debate people into fixing bugs ;)

on a more serious note.... KDE should openly court developers more...right now the OSS world is largely allowing developers to acrete around the various platforms in a more-or-less "natural" manner, which is to say there is little actual active developer recruitment. i'm not sure exactly how to go about this right now (he says 3 glasses into the bottle of wine), but i do know that we could learn something from Microsoft, Apple and Sun on this one. they all have developer programs, and at various levels they cost $. they all also have active developer promotion programs which they foot the bill for. this is, IMHO, definitely something for KDE's 5 year plan.