App duplication again (Re: new project in kdemultimedia)

[Matthias Welwarsky]

On Saturday 04 May 2002 20:59, Neil Stevens wrote:
> On Saturday May 04, 2002 11:49, Thomas Diehl wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 4. Mai 2002 19:07 schrieb Neil Stevens:
> > > No, we aren't talking about duplicates.  It's not two copies of the
> > > same app.  See the earlier CD Bake Oven vs KreateCD arguments for
> > > proof of that.
> >
> > Bake Oven and KreateCD are mostly frontends to the same programs. From
> > a user perspective, they just differ in the "looks" you seemed to
> > despise so much -- at least where translations are concerned. But each
> > of them could surely be brought to fit the needs of different target
> > groups.
>
> So be it.  The only question, then, is who loses?  The people who liked
> KreateCD's UI, or CD Bake Oven's UI.

Why would they lose anything? It's not like these applications were extincted 
from earth. You think much too cvs-centric. KDE is more than is in cvs. 

> I hope the merging fails, so that users don't lose their preferred UIs.

Let them decide for themselves.

regards,
	matze