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

[Waldo Bastian]

On Saturday 20 April 2002 04:43 pm, Matthias Welwarsky wrote:
> > I'm inclined to think that we should move kate and konsole (any others?)
> > out of kdebase then. (And into kdeutils or so)
>
> mhm, base alone (especially without konsole) would be barely useable, don't
> you think?

It gives you a functional desktop. That's about it. Then you can add 
applications on top of that.

> Or is this a joke I don't understand?

No.

When I try to explain what KDE is to people I always tell them that KDE is 
three things:

1) KDE is an application framework.
2) KDE is a desktop, e.g. the window manager, panel, desktop background
3) KDE is a large number of consistent applications.

If you keep that in mind and then look at CVS you see that kdelibs implements 
1), kdebase implements 2) and the other modules together with 3rd party apps 
are responsible for 3).

Cheers,
Waldo
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