Am 17.08.2014 um 23:09 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> On 17/08/2014 20:47, Henrique Lengler wrote:
>> I don't know why KDE people are creating everything again.
>> koffice, konqueror, a lot of things, that already exists in the linux
>> world are being recreated by KDE.
>>
>> Whats the problem to use things that already exists?
>> Why don't include software that is famous and liked by people insted of
>> insist in their "K"things?
>>
>
> 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.
>
>
you know.. konqueror came before nautilus....
