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Repositioning the KDE Brand (KDE.News)

Posted Nov 29, 2009 10:13 UTC (Sun) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164)
In reply to: Repositioning the KDE Brand (KDE.News) by michaeljt
Parent article: Repositioning the KDE Brand (KDE.News)

Well, the dependencies are big if you don't run anything yet. The KDE
Platform IS big, offers a lot of features. Digikam does. I guess that is
indeed a disadvantage, having a 3.5 mb download would be better. But it's
not a huge issue, right?

I can see why somebody wouldn't want to use F-spot - mono being evil (or
not) and all. And having the slowness due to an interpreted language etc (or
not, again, it's up for debate). Of course I'd rather see ppl who want to
use Digikam and other KDE apps because they're good ;-)

I just hope the dependencies aren't a real reason not to use digikam or
other KDE apps. I think for normal users they're not, as the won't even see
the libs being downloaded. As long as it is reasonably properly packaged (eg
doesn't include dolphin) things should be OK.

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Repositioning the KDE Brand (KDE.News)

Posted Nov 29, 2009 21:32 UTC (Sun) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]

> Of course I'd rather see ppl who want to use Digikam and other KDE apps because they're good ;-)
See http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/22708/ for my attempt at getting something moving here. Feel free to promote it a bit and pass the link around to like-minded people if you like it (or tell me why not if you don't :). I think it would be great if good applications were not held back by being associated with the "other desktop", and I think this would be a good chance to break down some of the walls in people's minds.