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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Moving kdcop
From:       "Roberto Alsina" <ralsina () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-02-02 22:10:09
Message-ID: 61206.200.69.193.205.1075759809.squirrel () linux ! netline ! com ! ar
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> 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? ;-)

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