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

[David Faure]

On Saturday 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).

Ok for getting rid of XEdit (no doubt!), and maybe kedit, but we do need at 
least kwrite and kate (same codebase anyway!). I don't need a full-fledged
kate (with the sidebar, the plugins etc. etc.) just to view the source of an
HTML page, or type "Hello world" in a file. "Simple" text editors are always
needed, and IMHO we really have a good solution with kate+kwrite,
that's no code duplication (no doubling efforts etc.) since they share the same
codebase. So the user still has to choose between the fast-and-simple kwrite
and the bigger-and-more-featureful kate, but since people were comparing to
Windows: even Windows has two plain text editors.
No, KWrite was not only kept for compatibility. At least I really hope so.

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