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

[Waldo Bastian]

On Friday 05 July 2002 01:46 pm, Neil Stevens wrote:
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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.
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> > 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.
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> Bigger applications shouldn't be encouraged to be part of the environment?

I don't consider anything other than kcontrol/kpanel/kwin/etc. part of the 
environment, kdebase makes the environment, everything else are apps.

> 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. 

Fitting in and being part of are two different things. 

Cheers,
Waldo
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