| On Wednesday 04 March 2009 15:51:16 Kishore wrote: > On Wednesday 04 Mar 2009 7:16:10 am Rick Miles wrote: > > > Not the smartest design decision of 2008. :-) > > It was not a "smart" choice but a necessary one. There was lack of > competent manpower to get it into good shape for kde4. There is still hope > for it to come back in the kde 4 life time if somebody steps up to it. > > > I get the impression allot of things were expendible for the sake of > > competitive eye candy. I used both kooka and kpdf all the time and > > they're down the third tube on the left also. I'll grant there are some > > welcome improvements under the hood but what about useability? Seems they > > left arts in, probably a trade off, arts or kdeprint which one should we > > keep. > > kooka suffers the same as kdeprint. i.e. the lack of maintainers. kpdf on > the other hand has survived.... it got a new name (okular) and more > features too. arts as a design choice has been dropped. You might note a previous post of mine today where I could not print a pdf with okular as it asks me what filter to use and then won't do anything with any of those offered for selection. -- Cheers, http://turtlespond.net http://rickmiles.com.au |
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