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

[Yves Glodt]

On Saturday 20 April 2002 11:41, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> On Samstag, 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).
> >
> >  Just my personal opinion
>
> 100% agreed. The question is if the kappfinder should be run
> automatically anyway.

I think it should. But it should create a menu entry "X-Applications" 
and put "every crappy" X-app in there, as there is "Terminal 
Applications"


> I think the users who want to use it for adding
> those programs kappfinder detects to their kmenu are fine with
> running it manually. That would do a good deal already (also avoiding
> confusion such as having xmms and noatun listed in the multimedia
> menu for example).
>
> As a sidenote, simplicity and offering just one app for the user for
> one task is what made distro's like Corel or Lindows or Redmond Linux
> (lycoris) so popular for the mainstream users. The main job they do
> is basically strip down the K menu to applications that they think to
> one task just fine and not offering 5 alternatives which confuse the
> users. (also things like sorting the kcontrol tree into "look and
> feel" with offering just basic configuration and adding a sub-section
> "advanced look and feel" holding all the other entries help a *lot*,
> too IMHO)
>
> Ralf

-- 
Linux 2.4.18 #2 Tue Feb 26 22:43:17 CET 2002 i686
 11:48am  up  1:33,  2 users,  load average: 0.13, 0.19, 0.21