Proposal for app for kdeutils: KConvert

George Wright georsoc at attglobal.net
Sat Apr 13 23:08:54 BST 2002


> Just a thought, not an opposition.... but somehow I think there should
> be a limit as to what should go into "KDE itself" and what should be
> available as "3rd-party kde app, from e.g. sourceforge". Would we say yes
> to importing e.g. an application into KDE which is only useful to one
> country, or to one profession - e.g. medical apps, a library-management app
> (for librarians) etc. Opensource software needs such apps, without doubt,
> but... in a way that only the relevant users grab those apps, whereas KDE
> is usually "distributed as a whole".
> (Yes, I'm extending the debate much beyong the KConvert case ;)
>
> Anyway, wasn't there a kunit or such, which supported all conversions done
> by "units", i.e. with a much broader scope?

Hi,

I just had a search on google for KUnit, and it came up with several hits. It 
seems that KUnit is for the KDE2.x system and is unmaintained. Also, if it's 
a frontend for the units program, that would require the user to have units 
installed, whereas KConvert is a complete reimplementation.

Regards,

George





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