On Thursday, 2011-04-14, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > Hi, > > > I suppose we all have our favorite parts of KDE. For me it's Quanta. For > > whatever reason the devs at wherever have pretty much decided it was not > > worth the effort to bring it along with KDE 4.x. There is one person > > trying to bring it along and I hope someday he manages to do it. > > No offense, but why at all should Qanta be part of a Desktop Environment? Good question. Did anyone ever actually suggest that? > I like Quanta, but what makes it worthwile to integrate it tightly into a > DE? I don't think anyone would attempt that, especially not at this stage of development. > > Kopete is meant to be replaced by telepathy (which is in early > > development) > > So I suppose a KDE frontend will be developed by the KDE project. > Which has to be maintained again, same situation but different program. Not entirely. The shared infrastructure makes it a lot less effort to maintain the new program which is basically just user interface. Basically *the* way to go forward, sharing maintenance load and support of new protocols between various development communities. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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