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Re: Focus on Infusion
by Andrea on Friday 15/Jun/2001, @16:24
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I could not understand why you don't merge with any of the moltitude of similar projects trying to do exactely the same. It seems that you know them, you even talk to them....
Don't re-develop the wheel, please!
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Re: Focus on Infusion
by Matthijs Sypkens Smit on Friday 15/Jun/2001, @17:57
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It can be read above that he started it as a `first try at writing a GUI-based application'. I think it's quite natural to start out on your own when you want to get experience in something and it's probably a more fun way of learning. There's no real obligation to help out the (free software/kde) community just because you can. People should enjoy what they do.
If the author is getting more involved and is having fun he might eventually even start contributing in a way you'd consider to be more useful as well.
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Matthijs
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Amen!
by KDE User on Friday 15/Jun/2001, @18:17
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100% agreed!
I realize that everybody has a 'different way to scratch their itch', but it's going to take a lot of cooperation to produce competition for Outlook and Exchange.
KDE is as successful as it is because thousands of ideas have been pulled together towards a common goal. If each of the core developers forged ahead with their own DE, neither DE would likely EVER be as successful as KDE.
Consider the current 'major players' w.r.t KDE:
Infusion - Promising backend
Magellen - Elegent interface
Aethera - KDE integration
KMail - simple, functional, robust
Now imagine what could be produced by combining the best parts of each offering!
Maybe at that point we could start using the word 'competition' with some confidence...
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Re: Focus on Infusion
by Craig Black on Friday 15/Jun/2001, @19:56
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It would be so freakin awesome it the kmail and infusion teams joined up with the Aethera team. Aethera's the application that shows the most promise at this point. They've spent quite a lot of energy cleaning up the Magellan code and have some very awesome things planned for it. We all can see what a good job Xamian has done with evolution but wait and see how Aethera turns out. Evolution will look boring. They basicly just Redid Outlook for gnome. Shawns guys are doing something better than that. Infusion is a little amateur project not even in the same league as Aethera.
Craig
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Re: Focus on Infusion
by Daniel Remsburg on Saturday 16/Jun/2001, @02:36
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C'mon, this is lame. You don't understand that the fact that this is his personal project. This isn't your project for you to criticize. He stated it was his first GUI app. Who cares what it looks like. Maybe you have to build a wheel before you can make a good one huh? Well basicly, you won't have to worry about 'rebuilding the wheel'. Pretty soon all the good ideas will play out and there will either be a victor, a collaboration, or a totally new program that'll combine the features of all of 'em together that will take the cake. Just like it sucks to keep re-inventing the car, i'd sure hate to be forced to drive a Ford because that's the only car (because they didnt want to re-invent the car). Some diversity is good, and I'm sure he didn't re-invent the inner workings which makes a mail program work. I'm very sure he just used the code from any standard mail program, which is what OSS is inteded for. No the whole damn project, just a bit of code here and there :^)
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