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Re: Maybe wrong priorities ?
by Arnomane on Tuesday 11/Sep/2007, @17:40

Well do you think it would be the right priority focussing entirely on yet another text editor, yet another terminal emulator, yet another...? Every desktop has its own functional apps for these purposes. For sure Kate is a great editor and Konsole a great terminal (although I now use Yakuake which in turn is based on konsolepart thanks to KDE's clever design) but do you think I can convince e.g. a Textpad (cute Windows editor) user or a die hard xterm friend using KDE just because of Kate or Konsole?

No. I can only convince people (that don't care about digital freedom initially) using KDE if I can show them _unique_ KDE features.

There is no other free desktop having such a broad range of educational applications (even not third party apps basing on that desktop). Ever wondered why Edubuntu features KDE-Edu apps as their key component although it is based on GNOME? You can be sure that Edubuntu people would have never made KDE-Edu their key component if there would be something remotely comparable to KDE-Edu.

And I am sure the OLPC people will realize sooner or later that there is no way without KDE-Edu if they don't want to provide a really cute hardware with a crappy software. OLPC people are currently stuck with their view that KDE (GNOME as well) is too big, too demanding and too complex for OLPC and thus made the failure not evaluating KDE-Edu. I am sure someday they will realize that KDE is anything else but a big monolitical BLOB you cannot modularize and that it is easier "sugarizing" KDE-Edu than rebuilding everything with their own PyGTK based Sugar environment.

Educational software is not your priority but it definitely is for a huge amount of completly new users. KDE is the world leader in free edu software. So do not understimate KDE-Edu's potential for the KDE world domination (TM).

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