App duplication again (Re: new project in kdemultimedia)

[Don Sanders]

> Do we really want KDE to be an app base containing 5 programs
> taking care of similar things. Is it really so hard to do? Look, we
> do not have different mail clients for pop3,apop3, imap, etc, but
> we have kmail.

I wouldn't use KMail as an example of how avoiding application 
duplication is good thing.

There was a time during the Qt/KDE 2 porting when KMail was badly 
broken. It was requested by several people that KMail be removed from 
cvs. The reasoning behind this request being that several new mail 
clients/groupware apps were being written and it wasn't necessary to 
have another mail client that duplicated functionality being provided 
by other apps.

If the requests to avoid application duplication were granted then 
KMail wouldn't be in cvs today.

Don Sanders.