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Re: What about Aethera?
by Scott Wheeler on Thursday 26/Jun/2003, @23:51

They're really quite different approaches -- Kontact is basically about reusing mature parts of KDE and wrapping them up and plugging them into a single application. All of the code from those projects is shared in Kontact and needn't be maintained separately.

To put things in perspective, if you sum the parts of KDE PIM that make up Kontact: KMail, KOrganizer, KNotes, KAddressbook, libkdenetwork, libkdepim -- and finally the glue between them, Kontact, it's around 200,000 lines of code. Kontact is about 4,000 -- 2% -- of that total (i.e. slightly larger than KNotes).

So really, if you want to talk about duplication of effort and reuing what's available -- that's exactly what Kontact does. Aethera, on the other hand, rather than being a small wrapper around these existing apps, must duplicate all that they do.

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