From kde-core-devel  Mon Aug 29 09:09:45 2005
From: Benjamin Meyer <icefox () gmail ! com>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:09:45 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Redefining kdelibs and kdebase
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On 8/28/05, Ingo Klöcker <kloecker@kde.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 27 August 2005 13:27, Olivier Goffart wrote:
> > Le Samedi 27 Août 2005 10:45, Benjamin Meyer a écrit:
> > > KDE Base
> > > Consisting of what runs on the desktop.  This packages is the basic
> > > set of applications beyond the desktop that KDE applications can
> > > assume are installed.  These applications should have no problem
> > > running on Windows, OS X or Gnome as stand alone applications is
> > > the user wanted them to be.  They would be useful applications in
> > > OS X etc.  This module might not contain everything that a user
> > > would expect a basic desktop to have (no calculator, spreadsheet
> > > etc) as those are in the rest of the modules (kdemultimedia,
> > > kdeutils etc)
> > >
> > > Examples:
> > > -File Manager
> > > -Viewer
> > > -Web Browser
> > > -Help Center
> > > -Konsole
> > > -KWrite
> >
> > Are you sure a viewer and konsole and kwrite are require ?
> > if i'm under gnome, i don't want to use nautilous, xterm and gedit.
> > i just need kcontrol and khelpbrowser in fact.
> 
> Why would you need any of this? If we really want good integration with
> the environment then KDE apps would obviously have to use the
> ENVIRONMENT's help browser and the ENVIRONMENT's configuration thingy
> when run in ENVIRONMENT, where ENVIRONMENT = KDE, GNOME, OS X,
> Windows, ...
> 
> Regards,
> Ingo

Some kde applications use konsole, kate (kwrite) in their application.
 That is why they are on the list.

-Benjamin Meyer