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

[Waldo Bastian]

On Saturday 20 April 2002 05:47 am, Matthias Welwarsky wrote:
> Not in itself of course. You cannot take away a choice if you cannot offer
> something with equivalent functionality in exchange. The problem is not
> that we have a too large variety of choices but that the choices are all
> bad, because they don't offer all the functionality needed for a given
> task. They may even overlap in what they provide, which is especially bad,
> because it prooves that the one, complete and working choice could be
> possible if the code was put together.

How is having 1 irc client in KDE going to improve that in comparison with 
having 3 irc clients in KDE?

Because we currently have 1 irc client in KDE and it is not terribly good. 
There are other Qt/KDE irc clients out there that are better in areas. And of 
course there is a great deal of overlap between all irc clients.

I fully agree with "one, complete and working choice could be possible if the 
code was put together." But I don't see how banning software from KDE 
supports that goal. On the contrary, I think that a whole or partial merge of 
two applications is much more likely when they are side by side in CVS.

Cheers,
Waldo
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