On 2017-04-14, Fri 13:29:54 CEST stakanov wrote:
In data venerdì 14 aprile 2017 12:06:49, Rüdiger Meier ha scritto:
Both possibilities would be
better than what we have now.
Why?
IMO because it’d be better for the KDE project to focus on the core experience while some applications could be split off to provide benefits to all environments, not just KDE. NIH syndrome is bad. There’s no good reason to keep gnome-keyring and kwallet around when independent password managers like KeePassXC could be integrated instead (just think of people who are using more than one machine/OS). There’s no reason for both gvfs and kio to exist when the same could be achieved with better FUSE integration. There’s no reason to have a completely useless KDE-specific web browser (as much as I used to like it in the old days). There’s no reason to have a KDE-specific BitTorrent client that is unable to seed properly and tends to crash. There’s no reason for a KDE-specific terminal emulator (qterminal exists now). There’s no need for most of kded. There’s no need for a KDE-specific screenshot utility. There’s no need for Calligra. In short, putting tons of completely superfluous and half-baked code out of commission and eventually replacing it by integrating existing solutions which are actively maintained by larger communities might be the way to go.