-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/27/2010 11:15 AM, Mariusz Fik wrote:
Dnia wtorek, 27 kwietnia 2010 o 05:18:04 Ken Schneider - openSUSE napisał(a):
On 04/26/2010 06:42 PM, Mariusz Fik pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Hi,
Do we really need xsane with default KDE installation? skanlite is simple and powerful app and it should be fair enough.
Yes we do, Just because you do not use does not mean no one else does. Does scanlite allow scanning multiple documents into one PDF? And as Donn stated it is DT agnostic.
(by the way Donn, PLEASE stop top posting)
Why do You think I'm not using it? Many _normal_ questions meets same answer: If you don't have to use it, just don't use it but many other users use it. Does any new Linux/KDE user need to scan multiple pages/docs into one pdf? *Is it better to multiply programs which offer similar functionality?* We don't need a mess in fresh kmenu. Look ie. on ubuntu menu... simple and all kind of programs installed by default.
Linux-based distros have offered a variety of different apps with identical or at least similar functionality at least since the first CD distros were published in 1994. It's a tradition. Unfortunately, or fortunately for the anti-choice faction, that tradition is being dropped lately. The reason for the tradition of including multiple apps is simple: Offer users several different apps so they can easily select one that they like. Most users love to have such a selection available to them so they can pick the one they feel works best or simply "feels" best for them. They are happier to have several choices available and on hand than to have a single choice imposed upon them in the way the commercial OS market does. There have always been a few who complain about having "too many choices", and complain that there must be only one app per function per distro. As many people like to say, "free software is about choice", so by extension this is about the users' choice. I'd say to those who hate choice, "sorry, but you're going to have to just live with having too many choices. After all, those who want choices had to live without choice or even a say for a long time. Deal with it. Please. But if you can't, you could produce your own distro... It's so easy a caveman could do it... == jd Fortune's Real-Life Courtroom Quote #32: Q: Do you know how far pregnant you are right now? A: I will be three months November 8th. Q: Apparently then, the date of conception was August 8th? A: Yes. Q: What were you and your husband doing at that time? - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFL10hzhpL3F+HeDrIRAvFaAKCkoxebDSnMjE/QZU/RB+T7AeCocwCdFzFG tUTeR97JIyboeOzctLpv1OE= =zAGa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org