App duplication again (Re: new project in kdemultimedia)

[Klas Kalass]

Am Sonntag, 5. Mai 2002 02:03 schrieb Waldo Bastian:
> On Saturday 04 May 2002 02:21 pm, Andreas Pour wrote:
> > Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > On Saturday 04 May 2002 12:06 pm, Andreas Pour wrote:
> > > > The "core" distribution should instead be targeted at the
> > > > unsophisticated user, the one that will be confused by multiple
> > > > applications, that wants to be able to use the machine at the office
> > > > or at a friend's and have the same tools as the machine at home.
> > >
> > > That's of course your opinion.
> >
> > Your point?
>
> That you forgot to add "IMHO".
>
> > > I for example think that KDE should also be
> > > targeted at sophisticated users.
> >
> > You snipped the part about sophisticated users being able to find what
> > they want w/out it being in the "core" packages.  Do you disagree with
> > that?
>
> I don't believe in the whole notion of "core" packages. IMO the only core
> that we have is kdelibs (for apps/developers) and kdebase (basic runtime
> environment) and everything else is "apps" in my book.

The Announcements for the releases (like KDE 3.0) always mention programs of 
the other packages. So it looks to the reader as if all of this was "the 
KDE". If we do not want that we should release all of those packages 
seperately and only kdelibs/kdebase as the parts making up a KDE release. In 
that case we can say "those are just programs put together in one place for 
convenience of the developers" and not mention any programs that do not 
belong to libs/base in the Release Announcement. But if we leave it as it is 
I think that we should take all packages as serious as kdelibs/kdebase and 
make sure it is "round" and "well put together". It looks like a "KDE 
Distribution" now and we should treat it like this or change what we 
communicate as being KDE to the outside.

Cheers,
Klas