Fwd: Re: Application duplication (was: Re: cdbakeoven)

[Ralf Nolden]

On Samstag, 20. April 2002 11:25, Lubos Lunak wrote:
>  These four editors are Kate, KWrite, KEdit and the fourth one is most
> probably XEdit from kappfinder. KWrite should be probably wiped out
> immediatelly (IIRC it was left just for backwards compatibility), XEdit
> could be probably wiped out too, or at least moved in a submenu or a
> different menu (I don't believe anybody uses this thing anyway, IMHO
> kappfinder could just simply ignore it instead of having .desktop file for
> every crappy and obsolete piece of software it finds). KEdit from kdeutils
> also probably doesn't have many users as Kate is the preffered editor, and
> I don't see what it can do and Kate can't (well, besides starting faster,
> but there can be certainly done something about this).
>
>  Just my personal opinion
100% agreed. The question is if the kappfinder should be run automatically 
anyway. I think the users who want to use it for adding those programs 
kappfinder detects to their kmenu are fine with running it manually. That 
would do a good deal already (also avoiding confusion such as having xmms and 
noatun listed in the multimedia menu for example).

As a sidenote, simplicity and offering just one app for the user for one task 
is what made distro's like Corel or Lindows or Redmond Linux (lycoris) so 
popular for the mainstream users. The main job they do is basically strip 
down the K menu to applications that they think to one task just fine and not 
offering 5 alternatives which confuse the users. (also things like sorting 
the kcontrol tree into "look and feel" with offering just basic configuration 
and adding a sub-section "advanced look and feel" holding all the other 
entries help a *lot*, too IMHO)

Ralf


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