Thanks, -N.

• Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by Benjamin Atkin on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @17:00

  I'm excited about Kate too. It's a cool name, and should be a neat program. I would like to see a creative name for a new IM client. Gnome's GAIM is going through legal battles, when perhaps they could have just thought of a cool name. I think Kim would be a nice name, standing for KDE Instant Messaging, as Kate stands for KDE Advanced Text Editor. Richard Stallman said in his recent speech in Boston that coming up with a cool name is part of the fun of developing a program. I agree. I would like to see a more sophisticated KDE instant messaging tool, perhaps in 2.3, 2.4, or 3.0. This would be useful in the fight against proprietary computing environments.

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• Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by Justin on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @20:43

  The trouble with GAIM is not the name, but rather the network. AIM is a proprietary network. KDE includes an AIM client, called Kit. It _could_ be renamed to Kim, but the problem of the proprietary network is still there. I think if KDE is going to include any sort of IM program, it should be a Jabber client. Jabber is the open-source decentralized IM system (see jabber.org for more info, or jabbercentral.com for clients). I would suggest including the client I'm working on, Psi, but it requires Qt3. Konverse would be a better choice, since it is a KDE program. Maybe it should be included in the KDE distribution? If it doesn't replace Kit, it should at least be there alongside it. This would be a great promotion of Jabber as well. Unfortunately, Konverse (and Psi, for that matter) are not in fully usable states. But that will change for sure.

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• Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by Benjamin Atkin on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @17:01

  I'm excited about Kate too. It's a cool name, and should be a neat program. I would like to see a creative name for a new IM client. Gnome's GAIM is going through legal battles, when perhaps they could have just thought of a cool name. I think Kim would be a nice name, standing for KDE Instant Messaging, as Kate stands for KDE Advanced Text Editor. Richard Stallman said in his recent speech in Boston that coming up with a cool name is part of the fun of developing a program. I agree. I would like to see a more sophisticated KDE instant messaging tool, perhaps in 2.3, 2.4, or 3.0. This would be useful in the fight against proprietary computing environments.

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• Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by Benjamin Atkin on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @17:02

  sorry for this repeat post. I saw a quote from Caldera I thought would be interesting that I missed, pushed the back button and impulsively reposted form data. Please excuse me for this.

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