KDE Studio

[Daniel Beckham]

I have to disagree.  Competition, even if it's between free software, is 
better than a monopoly.  I want choices and innovation.

Daniel

At 11:09 AM 8/17/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi,
>competition is good, and I agree on that, but splitting efforts is not!
>
>Right now kdevelop is pretty usable tool.
>KDEStudio, I don't know. The interface seems nice but I didn't test it
>I know that KodeKnight (another ide) is in the CVS tree but no snapshot
>available yet.
>It is suppose to be the"ideal" tool for kde2 because it uses corba
>massivelly....
>
>So, right now we have:
>one pretty usable tool even if not complete (kdevelop)
>a nice-looking tool that I don't know if it is usable
>a tool that is suppose to be the best one but we have never seen.
>
>Well next year we will have 3 different and exceptional tool for
>developing on kde, BUT right now we have only a not feature complete
>one....
>
>So why don't we merge the efforts for having a great one, and from that
>start developing the revised-and-corrected-with-my-best-options one???
>
>WE NEED APPLICATIONS right now so having a usable tool is our priority.
>The big advantage that Windows has on Linux is the availability of tons
>of uniform interface and close-to-operate-togather applications
>
>Right now only kdevelop is the tool that we can use for fighting on this
>arena....
>So why not "enhancing it"??? The sooner the better....
>
>My 0.02$ from a software engineer that is evaluating kde for his
>customer base
>
>Cheers
>                         Massimo
>
>
>
>
>Jono Bacon wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> > > I never meant to offend anyone.  I was just saying that one could easily
> > > just say this was a screen shot cobbled together in gimp except that the
> > > Dockable widget was very well done and a very nice addition to the KDE
> > > toolkit...
> >
> > I was'nt offended :-)
> >
> > > That being the case, I'm inclined to believe that it is for real and we
> > > should be able to see some results when it's ready for the public.
> >
> > Does anyone know what this KDE Studio program actually does. I have to 
> say that
> > the homepage did'nt explain much to me, although the program does look
> > promising.
> >
> > I think it is a good sign to see possible competition even in the free 
> software
> > game. Choice is what we all need, and although KDevelop is great, it is 
> only
> > one choice for a fully integrated IDE for KDE.
> >
> > When competition arises, everyone tries their best to out-do each 
> other, and
> > even higher grade software is released.
> >
> > I am certainly on KDevelop's team...
> >
> >         Jono
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Jono Bacon - [vmlinuz]
> >
> > Email: jb at linuxuk.co.uk
> > ICQ  : 1758965
> >
> > Linux - Opening Doors And Smashing Windows :-)
>
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