App duplication again (Re: new project in kdemultimedia)

[Thomas Diehl]

Am Samstag, 4. Mai 2002 13:11 schrieb Piotr Szymanski:

> Once on a beatiful day 4.05.2002 13:00, Malcolm Hunter wrote:
> > Do you propose someone does a review on each program to work out which
> > one to keep? The additional features (if any) could be added to the one
> > that is kept, I suppose.
>
> This should is what the maintainer of kdemultimedia should be
> responsiblefor.

I would prefer something which is a bit more transparent to everybody. 
Nobody wants a dictator here, not even a "benevolent" one. And 
nobody is going to create a big bureaucracy, either, even if it worked 
(it wouldn't).

But I could imagine something like this: Somebody with a new app sends 
a short description and a link to sources, screenshots etc. to the 
respective devel-list, eg multimedia-devel. If there is consensus on 
including the new app, fine. If there is no consensus, there should be 
someone who has got the final word for this round. If anybody is not 
satisfied with the decision (s)he could always complain to (core-)devel or 
another maintainer. And, anyway, there is life outside KDE core as well. 

Things are getting more difficult, of course, if there already is a program 
with similar functions and the maintainer is not willing to have it 
replaced or to co-operate on a rewrite. OTOH, most real good programs 
_are_ rewrites of others. So I guess we are going to need a solution for 
this case as well. And I think it has to be something similar to the above.

> I am getting sick of translating the same line in several
> programs.

If it is exactly the same line you should use the Rough Translation feature 
of KBabel (and make sure the database for KBabelDict is up-to-date). But, 
of course, we have still zillions of _almost_ identical strings which 
should be made consistent -- some time.

> I bieleve the issue is similar to the IM client issue. There is
> no use in having zounds of them.  But certainly this is not the list for
> such discussions. It should go to kde-multimedia(-devel?).

I sent a CC to core-devel, it is not just a multimedia problem.

Regards,

Thomas


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