App duplication again (Re: new project in kdemultimedia)

[Neil Stevens]

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On Saturday May 04, 2002 08:12, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> Nice Neil, and perhaps we should just rename KDE to EDE (english-only
> desktop environment).

Think for a minute.  If you remove 2 apps from KDE and translate the third, 
or have all 3 in KDE and let the translators choose to only translate 1 of 
the three, what freaking difference is there for non-english speakers?  
Removing two apps doesn't make CD writing *more* accessable for them.. it 
in fact guarantees that two apps will be unusable for them.  If we have 
all 3 in KDE, then there will be the small chance they will all get 
translated.

> To fix a bug / add a feature has nothing to do with this topic.

Yes it does.  Untranslated apps aren't more unusable than apps with fatal 
bugs or fatal missing features.

> Translaters will never come here and say: we don't like to translate the
> 2 smtp auth support msgs, drop smtp.

But others are saying just that for them!

> But I think they have the right to say that they don't have fun to
> translate msgs for 4 duplicated apps.

Then they don't *have* to.  There is no difference to the 
non-english-speaker between them choosing not to translate app X, and 
having app X removed from KDE.

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