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Subject:    [kde-promo] Re: Question about your KPresenter's review
From:       "Eric S. Raymond" <esr () thyrsus ! com>
Date:       2002-02-10 3:08:45
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Navindra Umanee <navindra@cs.mcgill.ca>:
> As far as I know, kab is being replaced by kabc which uses the
> RFC-defined VCard format by default, and has a kab->kabc db convertor
> included.  See here for details:
> 
> http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdelibs/kabc/

That's good news.

> By desktop battle, I take it you are referring to the competition
> between KDE and the likes of GNOME, Microsoft, and Apple?  Other than
> what you've mentioned, what kind of strategy do you propose for KDE
> winning the desktop battle?

Pay attention to users.  End users.  *Real* users.  

> PS And remember, KDE is always moving.  KDE 2.1.1 is an *old* KDE.
> Welcome to endless upgrades land.  :-) We don't really have to tell
> you either: Jump right in and start improving/hacking/documenting KDE!

Actually, doing some coding for KDE is on my to-do -list. I have written
a GNOME applet, and fair is fair.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
 
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