Because Karbon14 has a maintainer and Kontour has lost its maintainer.

It is as simple and as complex as this!

An application or some part of code without a maintainer (and with not ev=
en a=20
developer) ages quite quickly in KOffice.=20

What was supposed to be Kontour 1.2 did not work well, Kontour 1,1 could =
not=20
work with KOffice 1.2's libraries and Karbon14 worked well but had few=20
features. So we had to choose. We have chosen Karbon14, as it was the=20
application that needed the less work to come to a "releasable" state.

Have a nice day/evening/night!

On Wednesday 11 December 2002 04:24, ephemeron@uk2.net wrote:
> At Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:03:35 +0100,
>
> Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > - Kontour is abandonned
> > - Karbon14 is Kontour's (emergency) replacement but is still in
> > progress
>
> I'm puzzled by this. Why is one relatively mature vector drawing
> program being abandoned only to be "replaced" by another? Both
> are free programs. How much code reusing is involved (aside from
> the usual common KDE libraries)? I liked Kontour and was looking
> forward to it becoming truly an Illustrator killer. (I suspect
> that was why some of the Adobe people hated its former name,
> KIllustrator ;-)
>
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