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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Superlous configuration?
From:       Leo Savernik <l.savernik () aon ! at>
Date:       2005-01-07 15:21:21
Message-ID: 200501071621.21845.l.savernik () aon ! at
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Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 18:50 schrieb Charles de Miramon:
> Le Mercredi 5 Janvier 2005 20:54, Leo Savernik a écrit :
> > The problem here is this:
> > - extension added against KDE x.y
> > - extension unmaintained for KDE x.y+1
> > - extension crashes for KDE x.y+2
> > etc.
> >
> > It'll become the same mess as it's currently with firefox. It becomes
> > unstable very quickly when adding extensions. Going with the very stable
> > vanilla firefox is, erm, too vanilla.
>
> You made a good point. Is the plugin mess in Firefox related to the fact
> that they are scripts and not really plugins.

To a certain degree, yes. It's a bigger (psychological) hurdle to set up an 
autoconf/automake/c++ development environment than to fire up a text editor 
and hammer in some javascript.

> But we already have today a 
> lot of addons (KFileReplace, babelfish, etc..) for Konqui. I have installed
> a lot of them and I don't have an option to take them away easily. 

Correct. They can't be removed and are installed from the very beginning on. 
So they get the same amount of testing coverage as built-in parts, and in 
fact, they appear to people like built-ins.

> It is an 
> Interface problem.

Well, it's been a human-machine-interface problem: Konqueror HEAD features a 
menu point "Configure plugins...", so removal/deactivation becomes possible.

Yet my point stays valid. Those plugins not installed along with the app by 
default will suffer sooner or later.
>
> Cheers,
> Charles

mfg
 Leo

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