From kde-core-devel Sat May 04 10:24:53 2002 From: Thomas Diehl Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 10:24:53 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: App duplication again (Re: new project in kdemultimedia) X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=102050803428867 Am Samstag, 4. Mai 2002 08:18 schrieb Thomas Diehl: > Am Freitag, 3. Mai 2002 21:49 schrieb Sebastian Trueg: > > my cd writing program k3b is in kdemultimedia now > > Well, after KOnCD, KreateCD, and CD Bake Oven this would be the 4th one. > The existing ones already gave us something like 1200 strings to > translate. How many strings is yours? > > I really start to wonder whether we are not overdoing here quite a bit OK, meanwhile I was told that this new CD burner (k3b) in kdemultimedia adds another 700+ strings which means that we now have something like 2000 strings for CD burning apps alone for each and every of our 50+ translation teams. Even if we can re-use a lot of these strings I think the situation is getting absurd. And I'm not only talking CD burners here. We now have 4 of these apps in core CVS (+ kaudiocreator somewhere). If we go on like this we will shortly have half a dozen. And if we have half a dozen CD burners why not have half a dozen bitmap editors, vector programs, and 5 vocabulary trainers for every single KDE language? There are currently something like 30,000 GUI strings and maybe the same amount of doc strings in kde-i18n (give or take a few thousand) -- how many are we going to have after this kind of app inflation? 50,000? 80,000? And _for_what_? Don't get me wrong. I wouldn't mind if it was a 100,000 strings for solid, unique programs with a real perspective. But I'm not going to waste my time, bandwidth, disk space, and every other resource on the ego gratification of a few developers who are not willing to cooperate and to either merge or re-write their projects until we get one real good solution instead of 5 average ones. If we are not going to find a clear and transparent decision process which apps go into KDE core and which do not, which ones are to drop and which ones need just a re-write we are going to drown in a sea of mediocre code, untranslated programs, and overburdened infrastructure instead of getting the first class desktop environment everybody is after. Regards, Thomas -- KDE translation: http://i18n.kde.org/ Deutsche KDE-Uebersetzung: http://i18n.kde.org/teams/de/