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

[Thomas Zander]

On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 11:34:29AM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> On Saturday 20 April 2002 10:47, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> That 
> doesn't mean that it can't be developped with KDE but the apps shouldn't be 
> in the main Distri. Kate, Kedit, Kwrite are good examples. They are 
> redundant. okok Kedit is more basic but hey... whats is the prpose of Kedit 
> if we have Kwrite? I heard some they on that list that Kate is the successor 
> of Kwrite. But why the hell is Kwrite still in the distri if it was 
> successed?

I think this is a very good example of a bad interface. 
We have a submenu in the K menu named 'editors' Then we have 5 (in my case) 
editors in there which are _all_ text editors.  The comment in the KMenu also 
says 'text editor' for each application.
In this case there are 5 applications labeled exactly the same with different 
names.  (Enjoy the pun ;)
No wonder its confusing.

The menu name 'editor' is confusing in itself; only programmers will see an 
editor as a text editor.  My dad will see editing his bank account as an 
acceptable application in the editors section.

The x editor should be labled as old/legacy or whatever. It does not belong in
the KDE stable since its interface is quite different.

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