Removal of KEdit

Jason Keirstead jason at keirstead.org
Sat Apr 19 14:05:50 BST 2003


> > I fail to see what the purpose of KEdit is when we have KWrite and
> > KRichTextEdit. KWrite can do everything KEdit does, and much much more,
> > and uses the exact same resources.
>
> Well, that's not true

Its not? Name me one feature that KEdit has that KWrite does not.
And I know top is not 100% accurate, but...

14404 jason     15   0 22120  21m  14m R  0.0  8.7   0:00.93 kedit
14615 jason     15   0 21720  21m  14m S  0.0  8.5   0:00.70 kwrite

.. this is accurate enough for me to assume that kedit has no
resource usage advantage over kwrite.

> but if it were true, then this would just be Juk vs
> Noatun all over again, with the difference that KEdit is already IN
> kdeutils, so it already has users who rely on it being there.
>
> We can't re-argue every policy every time it comes up.

This is totally not like Juk / Noatun at all.. Juk is a totally different app
targeted at a different audience than noatun, while KWrite and KEdit are
targeted at the exact same people. Juk focuses on things noatun does not,
and noatun focuses on things Juk does not. But KEdit and KWrite focus
on the exact same thing, plain text editing, and KEdit has no advantages to
offer at all over KWrite.

-- 
Jason Keirstead, BCS
http://www.keirstead.org




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