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List: kwrite-devel
Subject: Re: kutils/KEdit
From: mwoehlke <mwoehlke () tibco ! com>
Date: 2006-07-25 14:53:37
Message-ID: ea5b9h$c51$1 () sea ! gmane ! org
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Dominik Haumann wrote:
> On Monday 24 July 2006 17:09, mwoehlke wrote:
>> Dominik Haumann wrote:
>>> On Friday 21 July 2006 16:33, Robert Knight wrote:
>>>> On a side note, what is the difference between KWrite and Kate? Or in
>>>> other words, when would I want to use KWrite instead of Kate?
>>> Yes, I also remember the idea of removing kwrite in favour of kate.
>>> Don't know what came out of discussions, though.
>> Isn't KWrite more light-weight (basically just a window frame wrapped
>> around a KATE-part)?
>>
>> Personally I never cared for KATE (the application); it seems like a
>> KDevelop-wannabe, whereas I'm usually looking for 'just a text editor'.
>> I use KWrite (and KDevelop, which is using KATE-part) all the time. The
>> only time I ever used KATE was on a computer that didn't have KDevelop.
>>
>> Given that it *is* basically nothing but a KATE-part container, is there
>> really much overhead in maintaining KWrite?
>
> Maintaining never was a problem iirc ;) But we often had the discussions
> about three text editors in the K-menu, whereas one would already be
> enough.
Three? Funny, I can only find KWrite. :-)
My vote is still to keep KWrite (and hey, even Windoze has both Notepad
and Wordpad); I prefer having a lean-and-mean editor. Kate-app always
seemed like it had too many bells and whistles to be the Linux 'notepad'.
What's the third, though?
--
Matthew
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