App duplication again (Re: new project in kdemultimedia)

[Neil Stevens]

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On Saturday May 04, 2002 03:24, Thomas Diehl wrote:
> Am Samstag, 4. Mai 2002 08:18 schrieb Thomas Diehl:
> > Am Freitag, 3. Mai 2002 21:49 schrieb Sebastian Trueg:
> > > my cd writing program k3b is in kdemultimedia now
> >
> > Well, after KOnCD, KreateCD, and CD Bake Oven this would be the 4th
> > one. The existing ones already gave us something like 1200 strings to
> > translate. How many strings is yours?
> >
> > I really start to wonder whether we are not overdoing here quite a bit
>
> OK, meanwhile I was told that this new CD burner (k3b) in kdemultimedia
> adds another 700+ strings which means that we now have something like
> 2000 strings for CD burning apps alone for each and every of our 50+
> translation teams. Even if we can re-use a lot of these strings I think
> the situation is getting absurd. And I'm not only talking CD burners
> here.

If translators don't wish to translate the new app, nobody's forcing them 
to do so.

Why should translators get a double super veto over what goes into KDE?

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