On Don, 04 Jul 2002, Neil Stevens wrote:

> > > Thomas - "we agreed there was only one app needed"
> > Wrong. He said "I think most people want .. - but only one".
> 
> He wrote:
> "
> Anyway, what we basically agreed on back then was to handle the KDE 
> releases 
> as "real distributions" and avoid duplicated functionality as much as 
> possible.
> "
> 
> And that's what I quoted when I wrote:
> "
> We did?  Seems to me that there was no agreement there, or we wouldn't have
> k3b, kreatecd, cd bake oven, and koncd all in the release right now.
> "

Right. However he was talking about "functionality", you were talking about 
the 3 cdb apps in particular. Thats why you can't compare those statements. 

What I merely did was "fixing" this error by comparing Thomas' statement 
about the cdb apps with yours. See above. 

> And that's what you quoted when you wrote:
> "
> Well, they were simply imported without prior consent.
> "
> You didn't say *your* consent, and that's what I reacted to.

Well, obviously not mine alone, because i.e. the translators 
weren't exactly happy about having 3 times the amount of work for 1 kind of 
functionality. Did the translators gave their consent to translate 3 very 
similiar apps ? Surely not. 

But correct, I was talking about my consent here. Not because I have more 
power to decide the matter, but maybe because I know more about the 
consequences it has (i.e. for the translators). 

> I get a strong feeling now that this is a language barrier, rather than a 
> real disagreement.

Possible, I probably don't know enough about the "side effects" a certain 
kind of wording has for native speakers. Feel free to teach me here, to 
avoid similiar kinds of problems in the future. 

> > Since when is "you" == "the group" ?
> It wasn't just me.  I didn't write any of the apps in question, I didn't 
> import any of the apps in question.

Great, then give the affected people a chance to find a consen_sus_. 


Dirk