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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Minimum requirements to make a QT app into a KDE app?
From:       Maarten Stolte <maarten.stolte () veronica ! nl>
Date:       2001-11-09 10:56:36
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>
> I think that is has a reason that there is no such thing on Unix. The Unix
> way always has been to have simple modular programs which do one thing, but
> this very well, and combine these programs to get the desired
> functionality. The Outlook style of putting all thing together in a single
> monolithic application has not been very popular on Unix, neither for users
> nor for developers.

Evolution does it by having lots of parts

>
> When it comes to functionality we already have most of what Outlook
> provides for a single-user applications and I think that this is what by
> far the most people are needing. We don't have this "everything in one
> window"-framework, but that's not the problem, based on the existing
> applications we could write something like that within a few weeks.
>
please do :-))

> > Aethera.  IMO, a dreadful failure.  I've spoken to the guys at Kompany
> > and hopefully they will be doing something with it.  Actually is useful
> > as a simple mail client.
>
> Let's see how Aethera does, when there is a stable release (whenever that
> will be ;-).

seems far off

>
> > Evolution.  It took them 700,000 thousand lines of code to do that!  Not
> > multi-user yet.  Ickky C based GTK.

but it works somewhat interface wise ..i like it, judging by slashdot 
comments, alot of people do..

>
> Evolution is impressive, but if users really want this kind of application,
> we will see, and developing for KDE is definitely more fun (nice C++ code
> within a fraemwork you can understand).

sure..

> code in no time, but what do you gain? The problem is much deeper, e.g. the
> missing LDAP access or that KDE apps don't use the addressbook data in a
> consistent way.

not being solved in KDE3 either? 


Maarten
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