Redefining kdelibs and kdebase

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Sun Aug 28 20:07:53 BST 2005


On Saturday 27 August 2005 13:27, Olivier Goffart wrote:
> Le Samedi 27 Août 2005 10:45, Benjamin Meyer a écrit :
> > KDE Base
> > Consisting of what runs on the desktop.  This packages is the basic
> > set of applications beyond the desktop that KDE applications can
> > assume are installed.  These applications should have no problem
> > running on Windows, OS X or Gnome as stand alone applications is
> > the user wanted them to be.  They would be useful applications in
> > OS X etc.  This module might not contain everything that a user
> > would expect a basic desktop to have (no calculator, spreadsheet
> > etc) as those are in the rest of the modules (kdemultimedia,
> > kdeutils etc)
> >
> > Examples:
> > -File Manager
> > -Viewer
> > -Web Browser
> > -Help Center
> > -Konsole
> > -KWrite
>
> Are you sure a viewer and konsole and kwrite are require ?
> if i'm under gnome, i don't want to use nautilous, xterm and gedit.
> i just need kcontrol and khelpbrowser in fact.

Why would you need any of this? If we really want good integration with 
the environment then KDE apps would obviously have to use the 
ENVIRONMENT's help browser and the ENVIRONMENT's configuration thingy 
when run in ENVIRONMENT, where ENVIRONMENT = KDE, GNOME, OS X, 
Windows, ...

Regards,
Ingo
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