Removal of KEdit

[Neil Stevens]

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On Saturday April 19, 2003 06:17, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> On Saturday 19 April 2003 14:56, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > On Saturday April 19, 2003 05:45, Jason Keirstead wrote:
> > > On April 19, 2003 09:30 am, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > > > On Saturday April 19, 2003 02:50, Stephan Binner wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > >  It's often critized that default full installation has 3
> > > > > editors.
> > > >
> > > > How many times must we go over this same argument?  I thought we
> > > > settled this with the inclusion of Juk: Different apps with
> > > > different purposes are fine.
> > >
> > > 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, 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.
>
> Noatun vs. Juk was about different apps for different userbases

Well, obviously KEdit and KWrite have different user bases, too.

>, but
> beside that KWrite has no bidi support (and until it gets that KEdit or
> an other QTextEdit based editor must stay) KWrite and KEdit are just
> equivalent in the base features.

Base features are meaningless.  The only important comparison is a 
feature-by-feature list.  "Base features" don't matter when people go to 
use KEdit features that don't exist in KWrite.

> KEdit has no reason to stay beside it's bidi support.

Why do you say that?

> For convenience kedit could be a link to kwrite, to be
> backward compatible to apps starting kedit as editor (and we would need
> to adjust some command line options for kwrite I guess, not sure, have
> not installed kdeutils atm).

For whose convenience?  Ripping out KEdit and attempting to replace it with 
KWrite sure doesn't help the users of KEdit.

Don't you have better things to do than attack other apps?

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Neil Stevens - neil at qualityassistant.com
"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the
sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him
for the same act as the destroyer of liberty." -- Abraham Lincoln
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