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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Raptor=Dolphin?
From:       "George Goldberg" <grundleborg () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2008-06-29 12:26:58
Message-ID: 1aa4e8880806290526i5c913af2l35ec20c6584a86a1 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 29 June 2008 12:32:10 Peter Penz wrote:
>> Hi Anne,
>>
>> Maybe Aaron can comment on this in more detail, but my attention was caught
>> because of the "Dolphin" in the subject... The "Raptor=Dolphin" question is
>> unclear for me: As Dolphin did not (and never was intended to) replace
>> Konqueror my guess is that the question was meant as "Will Raptor be the
>> new _default_ menu?" Is this the question?
>>
>> As far as I know:
>> - Raptor is developed outside the scope of the core-plasma team.
>> - There has been no decision done whether Raptor will be the default menu
>> in future KDE versions. I think this topic even has not been discussed at
>> all, as Raptor is still in alpha stage.
>>
>> The cool thing in Plasma is that the user is not restricted anymore to use
>> one single application launcher menu :-) Currently there is Kickoff and
>> KMenu available, Raptor and Lancelot are alternative solutions that might
>> be available for KDE 4.2.
>>
>> Which of those 4 menus might be default for KDE 4.2/4.x is completely open.
>>
> Hi, Peter.  There was the possibility that raptor had been renamed, for any
> reason, and I needed to rule that out.  I propose to say that it is being
> developed as a third option, together with Dolphin and Classic.  I haven't
> come across Lancelot :-) so maybe I should look that up too.

I think there is some confusion going on here. The classic menu,
raptor, lancelot and kickoff are all menus for launching apps etc.
Dolphin is a file manager, like Konqueror.

Hope this clarifies it for you, Anne. (I guess this should probably be
mentioned in the document your making too.)


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George Goldberg
 
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