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Re: Does anyone knows
by rinse on Wednesday 09/Nov/2005, @14:06

probably a developer joke.
software that can do allmost everything is often refered by "this application contains everything but the kitchensync"
And of course, the name contains the famous 'K' and the phrase 'Sync' :)

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Re: Does anyone knows
by Patcito on Wednesday 09/Nov/2005, @15:20

ans what is a kitchensync? (excuse my french)

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Re: Does anyone knows
by Paul Eggleton on Wednesday 09/Nov/2005, @15:22

It's a corruption of "kitchen sink" as in the English saying "everything but the kitchen sink".

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Re: Does anyone knows
by Patcito on Wednesday 09/Nov/2005, @15:39

k thanx, and for those that are as clueless as me in english and still didn't get what is a kitchen sink, here it is http://images.google.com/images?q=kitchen%20sink :)

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Re: Does anyone knows
by Vlad Blanton on Thursday 10/Nov/2005, @07:50

Wo! I didn't expect that link to show hot chicks in sinks.

fetishes these days...

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Re: Does anyone knows
by a.c. on Thursday 10/Nov/2005, @10:28

It was an old joke/phrase about ppl packing. You packed everything except the kitchen sink. That is, you have far more than you need.

But in this case, KitchenSync is simply a play on words of Kitchen Sink. It has nothing to do with the phrase. I would guess that it was the only thing that they could think of that contained a K and Sync (apparently, synk was either taken, meant something in a different language, or was just not like).

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Re: Does anyone knows
by another ac on Saturday 12/Nov/2005, @06:45

The joke does apply to KDE, and I think that the name is intended to play up to this. As in:

"KDE includes everything, including the KitchenSync"

I think it was convceived shortly after 3.0, when there were cries that KDE was bloated & before the Kwhatever naming scheme became accepted.

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