On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 12:36:35AM +0100, R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Hi. I just wanted to know why there are so many multimedia players
> for KDE. Why do exist kaboodle, noatun, kplayer (named in the
> latest kde cvs digest), kmplayer...?? Wouldn't be better just one
> GOOD player? (i'm not saying those ones aren't good... but a joint
> effort could be more powerful i think).
Well, by some accounts, there are also 375 text editors on GNU/Linux.
Why didn't they start working on a unified editor? Why didn't the vi
and Emacs developers join forces? Why do we have hundreds of X window
managers? ...
Well, they have different purposes, that's why they exist. Ofcourse,
sometimes unification works ( like the case of KDE CD burning tools),
but most of the times, it doesn't.
Cheers
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