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

[Neil Stevens]

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On Friday July 05, 2002 06:07, Thomas Zander wrote:
> 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.

Bigger applications shouldn't be encouraged to be part of the environment?

That's what the original Ettrich mail is about, and that's *still* what 
people are faced with today:  Anyone can write an image viewer that 
follows the standards, but it takes discipline to make a big application 
fit the standards.  If it weren't for the marvels that are Konqueror and 
KOffice, KDE users would be in the same sad situation GNOME is in when it 
comes to GNOME apps vs Mozilla and OpenOffice.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil at qualityassistant.com
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have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
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