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

[Neil Stevens]

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On Friday July 05, 2002 07:19, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 03:36:01PM +0200, Piotr Szymanski wrote:
> > But hink about kopete and kit, once kopete is done kit will be useles
> > in kde, do you really think that it will be moved easily without
> > people getting mad?
>
> Nothing is ever _easy_.

It is easy if you don't choose to make it hard on users.  Reguarly telling 
users that their app doesn't exist anymore is an easy way to make things 
hard on users.

Kit is a very tiny app in the download, and a stable easy app to maintain.  
Leaving it in does no harm to anyone, but does a nice service to those who 
use it.  That's why I've maintained it even though I don't like it 
anymore: It's easy, and it keep some people happy, so I end up enjoying 
it.

That said, I'd agree equally with making a blanket decision that *no* 
clients tied to proprietary servers should be allowed in kdenetwork - not 
Kit, not a Kopete plugin, nothing.  I'd agree with removing Kit, but only 
for the right reason.

> But working in a group is never easy, in the end it is a whole lot more
> fun!

Tastes differ.  Some people enjoy rewriting entire frameworks in the course 
of writing their app.  That's why it's so hard to find big apps that 
follow standards: as a project grows, you're bound to get enough framework 
rewriters that your app gets its own framework.

> I am not claiming to have all the answers; but I do know that working
> together is a whole lot more efficient then competing on the same kind
> of software, even if you have to take a whole lot of time to grow to the
> same end goal.

"grow to the same end goal?"  So you reject the notion that two similar 
apps might have different goals?
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