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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdenetwork/kdict
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2004-07-13 21:59:55
Message-ID: 200407132359.55543.nicolasg () snafu ! de
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On Tuesday 13 July 2004 22:49, Frans Englich wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 July 2004 20:27, Christian Loose wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 13. Juli 2004 22:26 schrieb Frans Englich:
> > > On Tuesday 13 July 2004 20:06, Christian Loose wrote:
> > > > Am Dienstag, 13. Juli 2004 21:55 schrieb Andras Mantia:
> > > > > No, but if desktop FOO using XDG has an editor (FOOEdit), your
> > > > > solution won't prevent KEdit of showing up there... I admit this is
> > > > > more theoretical, but it means that you need to adapt the NotShowIn
> > > > > list each time a desktop introduces an (basic) application that's
> > > > > present in KDE.
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't comment the rest, as my point is simple: I don't like this
> > > > > solution, and that's all.
> > > >
> > > > I don't like the solution either.
> > > >
> > > > So far IIRC we always said if you don't want a specific app then
> > > > don't install it (like when you see Cervisia's icon in Konqueror). If
> > > > your distribution only provides our cvs modules as one package then
> > > > blame the distribution.
> > > >
> > > > Question: what happens if the user explicitly installed the kedit
> > > > package but uses GNOME? Will he see kedit in the menu?
> > >
> > > Give a realistic case.
> >
> > Okay, how about this.
> >
> > You added "NotShowIn=GNOME;" to kpdf. I would expect that the GNOME
> > developers will add "NotShowIn=KDE;" to gpdf.
>
> Yes, it would be useful for us if the GNOME developers did the same(which I
> encouraged them to do). I don't if that have been done, however.
>
> > Contrary to kpdf, gpdf already updated to xpdf 3.0. This xpdf version has
> > support for PDF 1.5. So it does make sense to explicitly install gpdf as
> > KDE user.
>
> And does users now about that? Fix the bug instead.

That seems a very bad argument for me. 

When the maintainer has no time, its application gets "blacklisted", so that 
it will get even less attention...

>

Have a nice day!

>
> 		Frans

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