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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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