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Posted by michael on from the viral-memes dept.

e8johan writes "The KDE PIM Team will integrate all their applications into one common interface and create an Outlook-like application.This is being done in the Kroupware project commissioned by the German government. There is a prototype of KOrganizer with KMain embedded into it (shots 1, 2), and another prototype with KMain running as a KPart in Kaplan (shot 1, 2, 3). This looks hopeful and if they manage to build the application as flexible and modular as other KDE projects this will hopefully mature into something great." Kroupware is a catchy name, but I wonder if the KDE team is aware of the English word croup.

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  1. phoenetics by Satai · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'd be much more worried about the superficial phoenetic similarity to "Krautware," which I think could be much more detrimental to this German project.

    Seriously, this is the kind of thing that can cause big problems later on.

  2. As They Say.... by Tsali · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "The 'K' stands for quality."

    --
    This space for rent.
  3. as long as I have the option of not installing it by g4dget · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    KDE and Gnome seem very busy cloning every aspect of Microsoft software, good or bad. I guess that will give lots of people a familiar destkop "for free", and a good consequence of that is that protocols and file formats become more and more open.

    Let's just not clone the aspects of Microsoft that are most annoying: the idea that there is one solution that works for everybody, and tying together clients and servers through proprietary protocols. If ever system configuration, mail, calendaring, or other imporant Linux functions started relying on Gnome or KDE, it would be the beginning of the end for Linux--because it would then really start being just like Windows.

  4. Re:Its a shame by prockcore · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "Aethera is out there and I barely understand why the KDE folks don't put their full effort behind it instead of rolling their own."

    Obviously, because it doesn't start with a 'K'.

    Seriously.. KDE has the worst case of NIH I've ever seen. The Gnome project has no problem adopting existing technology and projects. Galeon, the Gnome browser, uses Mozilla, they turned AbiWord into a Gnome app (it didn't start out as a Gnome app).. but KDE has to reinvent the wheel. "AbiWord? Nah, we're not going to make KDE bindings for it, no matter how modular it is! We're going to start from scratch".

    Someone needs to smack the KDE team and tell them to get over the NIH syndrome.. it's OK to use other people's apps as a basis for a KDE port.. that's what GPL is all about.

    And stop naming every project KProjectname. Gnome doesn't do this anymore. It's Xchat, Evolution, Nautilus, AbiWord.. not GChat, Gevolution, Gnautilus, Gabiword.