The "E" in "KDE" (more or less was: KDE RC Authority)

[Thomas Zander]

On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 02:38:29PM +0200, Rob Kaper wrote:

> After all, the E in KDE stands for environment. KDE is not just a framework,
> a set of libraries, a development platform or an API. KDE is a desktop
> environment.

I was actually hoping that after the 3.0 and 3.1 releases the desktop programs
would be 'mostly done' (whatever that means) and the community would focus on
quality of bigger applications.

Things like KWin / Kicker and even Konqueror are quite feature complete and
besides the normal maintainance and bugfixes they don't take too many peoples
time. (and give the GUI people for some cleanups :)
KDELibs can always be expanded, but the basis for good applications is there.
What use is there for new stuff without the applications to use them. And those
applications that use them should get more attention as the base lib gets stable.
Applications like KMonop or KWord or KOrganiser fill the applications sphere,
where KWin or kdeui fill the Environment sphere.


Bottom line; we need to create good end-products. They just happen to be based
on a good framework.

I feel that releasing just one and not 4 cd burners creates a good end product.
Like I said yesterday, if no-one is making the decisions, then you can just
let the problem be and hope it will go away, or go in and make a deal to get
the best out of a bad situation.

In this case, maybe after that one cd burner is released will the others wise-up
and start to grow to a merge.

I find the situation on this list getting quite rediculous, people are focussing
on potential problems and other peoples-bad-feelings.  Instead people should be
focussing on finding a satisfying solution. In this case; work with the
cd-burner authors and make sure the next KDE release has one very good burner.

Lets solve problems, not make them.
-- 
Thomas Zander                                           zander at planescape.com
                                                 We are what we pretend to be
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