On Wednesday 08 December 2004 00:11, Iain Dooley wrote: > but instead of building it's own web browser, and it's own mail client, > why doesn't KDE focus on integrating more thouroughly these other > fantastic, open source applications? Because those "other fantastic, open source applications" weren't available at the time the KDE applications where created and it would be a waste to drop all this nice integrations between them now. Moreover I am not convinced that they are better, it all depends on your needings. The KDE applications are by default a lot better if you want integration. > imagine what could be achieved if KDE, OpenOffice and the Mozilla > project joined forces... What are you missing exactly? There is a integration project for OO.o on KDE, the Gecko engine can be compiled on top of Qt and the asociated developers stated that a Qt/KDE based Firefox/Mozilla is not a technical problem. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@xxxxxx> Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User www.mrunix.de - German Unix/Linux programming forum www.qtforum.org - Qt programming forum ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.