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Subject:    RE: Thoughts of a KDE sceptic
From:       "Timothy R. Butler" <kde () uninetsolutions ! com>
Date:       1999-11-16 20:45:34
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I think part of the purpose is so that everything has a easy to use and
common interface. If KDE didn't have a bunch of applications it would
basically be just a Window Manager. However KDE is not a Window manager - it
is a very useful, highly integrated work environment.

   -Tim

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: kde-request@lists.netcentral.net
> [mailto:kde-request@lists.netcentral.net]On Behalf Of tim@maths.tcd.ie
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 9:34 AM
> To: KDE general mailing list
> Subject: Thoughts of a KDE sceptic
>
>
>
> I realise I must be in a small minority,
> but I think the idea of re-inventing every application
> for KDE (and again for GNOME) is misconceived.
>
> Let me take xdvi/kdvi as an example.
> Xdvi has been developed over many years,
> and is a highly sophisticated DVI viewer.
> The author, Paul Vojta, follows comp.text.tex
> (the appropriate newsgroup for TeX/LaTeX questions),
> answers queries about xdvi,
> and corrects such bugs as are pointed out to him.
>
> It is simply misguided in my view
> to try to write a rival program.
> It will not be used by the vast majority of TeXies,
> even those running KDE;
> and if people do run it and meet problems --
> as has in fact happened --
> their queries on comp.text.tex will not be answered.
>
> This is just one example;
> there are many others.
> I do not want to use a rival Java compiler to the official javac
> or a PDF viewer in place of acroread,
> simply because I do not believe
> they could possibly be as good.
>
> It would seem to me a much better use
> of the undoubted talent of KDE developpers
> would be to improve the "wrapping" for non-KDE programs,
> to allow them to use KDE features.
>
>
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