Removal of KEdit

[Stephan Binner]

On Saturday 19 April 2003 21:55, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:

> look at the basic text editors on other platforms to see how simple they are

I guess you didn't bear gedit of "simplicity's own desktop environment"[tm]
Gnome2 and its plugin system in mind? :-)

> Yet another wrapper around the ktexteditorinterface that provides a KEdit-
> like simple interface would suffice, but that's not written let alone

It seems that Joseph already worked on this.

> > Nobody installs kdeutils for KEdit.
> the real question is: does anybody use it?

Better how many? Do you have an answer? If there is really such big demand for 
such simple editor I would expect demand to move it to kdebase. Where is it?

> there have been 12 different commits to kedit.cpp this year. that isn't a
> blistering pace, but enough for a fairly stable application, no?

As pointed out, not enough commits to keep it up-to-date (eg find dialog).

> if one moved Kate to kdesdk then voila! two text editors in the base
> install of KDE for non-programmers.

Well, three - there is also krichtexteditor (blame me for disabling it ;).

Bye,
   Steve