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Re: Apps Roundup #2: Focus on Bibletime 1.0
by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Monday 16/Jul/2001, @13:33
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>> If v2.0 will include support for at least 10 different religions, ok, go for it, otherwise don't!
I agree. If:
Krayon does not include .gif support. I have a political problem with Unisys and the LZW .gif fiasco. Also, since a large percentage of the population is colorblind, it should only support greyscale images.
noatun removes all support and reference to the Franhauffer's MP3 codec. Since it is not Free, it should be removed. Ogg Vorbis can remain.
KDevelop does not support native tools for the One True Language, InterCal. Since it excludes programmers, it should be removed immediatly.
Now that speech synthesis is just starting to work, KDE will able to be published, but it is fantastically rude and rather nasty to publish it when the blind cannot use it. We should immediatly take ftp.kde.org offline until this situation is rectified.
In addition, make sure that those "10 different religions" that you mention include dogma from the Church of the Subgenius (Praise "Bob"!), the Principia Discordia (Hail Eris!), the Church of the Great Silicon Ghod (Foo), several thousand sect writings, and the whole lot must be reviewed by the Pope and the one chosen representitive of Allah (all of them) to make sure it is allowed to be distributed.
Oh, and I respect you so much for both the act of censoring an application that many could use, and the incredible strength that is necessaary to stand up to groups like the Scientologists (who are rumored to have killed to protect their secrets) when you demand that their Operating Level Theten III (OT III) be published.
I'm not saying that this should be placed in the distribution. But *if* "we" (the vague majority of active KDE users and developers) wanted any sort of app like this in KDE, then it takes one religion to start the ball rolling, even if three seconds later, you commit the Torah, the Koran, and the Book of the Subgenius and Revelation X annotation applications.
I would imagine that most KDE apps are written in one languge at one point. That doesn't mean their existance or that it is the programmers desire to steer KDE towards German or English only.
I'm very glad for the existance of this app: it shows that the popular niche applications are being addressed. It wouldn't bother me at al if it were included in the distro, no more than if KDE Quake were included (which I wouldn't use at all, either).
For that matter, a very real example: does Kapital support all currency and transaction / account types? Does that mean it wouldn't make an excellent addition to KOffice?
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To be continued, soon the TopfferTime...
by Alain on Monday 16/Jul/2001, @14:11
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What Means KDE ? K Desktop.
There is no need to Bible or Coran in a desktop. Perhaps something to study all big books, yes...
But it is out of topic. Nobody of the KDE team has said that this BibleTime would be included in KDE, so no problem.
If, one day, I create a KDE programm to compare the different versions of Rodolphe Töpffer comics (In Switzerland, France, Great Britains, USA, Germany, Portugal and so and so), I will be glad to announce it on this site. Be quiet, I would not want to include it in the KDE distribution, of course...
About Töpffer (for me more important than God, of course) : http://pressibus.org/bd/debuts
(and, of course, I am not a minority because a majority of comics fans and historians think that Töpffer is the comics inventor...)
(and a picture of Töpffer on the desktop is many more fine than some paragraphs of the bible, of course... so it is more useful for the K Desktop...)
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Re: To be continued, soon the TopfferTime...
by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Monday 16/Jul/2001, @14:29
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*Sigh* Some people miss irony, satire, sarcasm *AND* proceed to make the exact same point that I did. Did you not read my message? Maybe the bits about "I doubt it will ever be added, or even considered" that I now realize I didn't type? ;)
Of course, it's 11:34am, the deadline is today, and I've been up all last night working. :) I expect anything I post today to be regretted tomorrow, but it feels good right now.
Besides; the holy duality of comics are Neil Gaiman and Stan Lee. Wanna get into a religious flamewar over golden age versus modern gritty comics? (Yes, everything generates controversy... even the "K" in KDE... heck, I've been arguing for years with a friend if the belts on the spacesuits at the end of the Rocky Horror Picture Show are silver or gold. I'm imagine many arguments over religion are much less heated).
Wait until KDE gets more high profile and it's labeled demonic because it has a vile serpent, symbol of Satan, as its mascot.
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Re: To be continued, soon the TopfferTime...
by Hmmm on Monday 16/Jul/2001, @14:43
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Incredible !
Someone who knows about "monsieur Vieux-Bois" and another one which name I presently can't remember !
I know about those because I found original versions at my grandmothers house -- And that is the kind of discoveries that make your day.
Anyway, way OT here.
Aside from that it would be great if Bibletime could be made into a generic text study program.
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Re: Apps Roundup #2: Focus on Bibletime 1.0
by craig on Monday 16/Jul/2001, @15:53
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Perfect
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