Removal of KEdit

Neil Stevens neil at qualityassistant.com
Sat Apr 19 19:09:10 BST 2003


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On Saturday April 19, 2003 10:53, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> On Saturday 19 April 2003 16:25, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > Yeah, well I can come up with numbers too.  According to kpm, KWrite's
> > size is 60994, with an RSS of 19968 vs KEdit's size of 58808 and
> > 17832.  So by this measure KEdit uses a full 2MB less than KWrite. I'd
> > say that shows KWrite using significantly more resources.
>
> 2MB ?? Significant ?? At roughly $100 for a 512Mb mem module, that's a
> whooping 40 cents of difference. Yay KEdit.

Shall all KEdit users be required to spend $100 to upgrade their system?

> > So which person who hates KEdit is going to do it?  It'd be a total
> > waste of my time, along with any other KEdit user's, to add features
> > to a text editor I don't use, when all those features already exist in
> > a text editor I do use.
>
> But is the concept that you could add the feature to a text editor you
> then could use totally alien to you ?

The concept of wasting my time is not alien to me, no.  I just know to 
avoid it.  Reimplementing things in a perfectly good app is one of those 
things to avoid.

- -- 
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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