Am Donnerstag, 4. Juli 2002 09:00 schrieb Neil Stevens:
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> On Wednesday July 03, 2002 11:49, Thomas Diehl wrote:
> > If the CDRW authors could not bring themselves to create a common app=
 we
> > have to find a viable procedure how to pick one of the candidates.
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> Why?
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> I don't see you lobbying against KEdit and KVim because we have Kate.
> I don't see you lobbying against Noatun and aKtion because we have
> Kaboodle.
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> What is it about these CD apps that makes you want so badly to remove m=
ost
> of them?

We had a 100+ messages thread on this back in May, remember?
(http://lists.kde.org/?t=3D102050810200002&r=3D1&w=3D2) If this was not e=
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explain it to you I won't be able to explain it now. I'd suggest we don't=
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start this again.

Anyway, what we basically agreed on back then was to handle the KDE relea=
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as "real distributions" and avoid duplicated functionality as much as=20
possible. Among other things because we wanted to give translators and=20
documenters a real chance to create a fully localized and documented desk=
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environment. This is why kdeextragear was created in the first place.=20
(http://lists.kde.org/?l=3Dkde-core-devel&m=3D102084593614486&w=3D2)
I remember you did not agree on the CDRWs as "duplicated functionality" b=
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also remember that you were pretty much alone with this view.

> Heh.. multimedia has a happy tradition of having multiple development
> threads, though.  We had four independent video efforts, we have two
> different midi players, two video players, and we had two music players
> before kaiman was absorbed.
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> So, if you want the kde-mm way, we're already doing that. :-)

OK, maybe we should look for another group to decide on that. ;-)

Thomas

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