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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: kde's fifth toe
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-06-22 16:01:55
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On Friday 22 June 2001 07:05 am, Philippe FREMY wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There are good applications that are developed outside kde. We
> could perhaps help the authors of these to get more users.  After all, even
> if
> they are not in kde's cvs, they are kde apps.
>
> I am not sure but I think this is what is under the concept of Gnome's
> fifth toe.
>
> Anyway, what do you think of this way of making third party apps known ?
>
> The author of an application would have to ask for its application to be
> included. And the app should compile with the latest released kde and be
> stable.
>
> We would then distribute a big achives of all these apps.
>
> I am thinking about applications like boson, kdbg or quanta, that are quite
> good but deserve to get more attention.

Apart from the yucky name, I like the idea. A start may be to redesign the 
ftp-server a bit so that we can have a team of people who actualy "maintain" 
the stuff there. (E.g. the time between uploading something to Incoming and 
having it available from its final destination is much too long.) If we can 
get a slightly more accurate labeleling like "works with KDE x.y" of the 
applications there, that would already be a huge improvement.

Cheers,
Waldo
-- 
As a first step to embrace the GPL, 
Microsoft now too has added ideological statements to its EULA.

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