From kde-core-devel Mon Feb 02 22:10:09 2004 From: "Roberto Alsina" Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 22:10:09 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Moving kdcop Message-Id: <61206.200.69.193.205.1075759809.squirrel () linux ! netline ! com ! ar> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=107575957605876 > On Monday 02 February 2004 22:57, Stephan Binner wrote: >> On Monday 02 February 2004 22:50, Frans Englich wrote: >> > Is not kdesdk a better place for kdcop? >> >> You forget to say why. kdcop can be used by users. > > Every app can be used by users. This is not a joke, for every single app > out > there it is usable for at least one user. But we can't force it on > everyone, > the resources in terms of usability and harddisc space simply not exist. > > If someone need to mix with KDE internals, those hackers can install > kdesdk, > just as everyone install koffice if they need office suite functionality. > > Sounds reasonable? kdcop lets power users explore enough to create nice stuff like the googleclip thing from a couple of days ago. kdesdk usually has a dependency on a real development environment, which those power users don't really need. And come on, just how big *is* kdcop? It's 100K here, let's say 200K with docs? 70K gzipped? In a 9MB package? ;-) -- ("\''/").__..-''"`-. . Roberto Alsina `9_ 9 ) `-. ( ).`-._.`) ralsina@kde.org (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._`. " -.-' KDE Developer (MFCH) _..`-'_..-_/ /-'_.' (l)-'' ((i).' ((!.' Buenos Aires - Argentina Imminentizing the eschaton since 1971.