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

[Thomas Zander]

On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 01:19:58PM +0200, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Saturday 20 April 2002 10:47, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> 
> > I think we need to "outsource" certain apps to their standalone versions
> > not included directly in the core KDE distribution modules like kdebase and
> > have one solution (preferrably the best and simplest to use for the user)
> > that ships with the base modules.
> 
> I disagree, all we'd need to do is change the K-Menu to be task-oriented 
> instead of showing applications. E.g. "Edit file" instead of a list of 
> editors to choose from. Yes, that should probably easily switchable, so you 
> can choose the editor instead of launching the default editor.

Hmm?  Using the K menu is for starting applications. I am not quite sure what
that has to do with documents which are opened from konqueror.  The document
based approuch is fully implemented in konq; using mime you always have the same
editor when you click on a certain filetype.

-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander at earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new
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