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List:       kwrite-devel
Subject:    Re: kutils/KEdit
From:       Dominik Haumann <dhdev () gmx ! de>
Date:       2006-07-25 14:59:48
Message-ID: 200607251659.48531.dhdev () gmx ! de
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On Tuesday 25 July 2006 16:53, mwoehlke wrote:
> 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?

KEdit

They could go into extragear.

--
Dominik
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