On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 11:09:24PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > You can't be serious right? > > Go back and find the original post from the founder of KDE as to why KDE > was started at all. It's all about incoherent, mis-matched, > ugly-when-bundled together apps that do not work in sympathy. This is > still true today. > > Take kparts and kioslaves. KDE treats as much as possible as some sort > of plugin that all KDE apps can share. This gives the user a fantastic > degree of abstraction because anything that represents data can be a > kpart. NFS mounts, smb shares, ssh, some weird random new thing - all of > them show up in the file manager. Drag and drop works because of this. > > Consistent look and feel amongst KDE apps is probably the best reason > for KDE's existence at all. But let's continue with your argument. What > are these things that "already exist"? Nautilus? Why should KDE *not* > implement a file manager? Should we ditch Dolphin in favour of Nautilus? > Or something else perhaps? Should we drop Okular and tell everyone to > just use xpdf instead? OMGF, have you actually *used* that piece of > shit? Can you figure out *how* to use it? I can't - buttons all over the > place in weird places.... xpdf is probably the best example of why KDE > was started. > > I think I will stop now and wait for you to list the 100s of apps that > already existed before related KDE apps were released, so we can see > what these adequate replacements are.
Hi, I already said sorry for my stupid argumentation. -- Henrique Lengler