--- On Mon 02/03, Laurent Montel < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:

Le Monday 03 February 2003 15:39, Jason Straight a �crit :
>> Now that I feel mandrake has done the politically correct thing by not

It is not the politically correct thing, it is the right thing.

>> taking away our choice, I'd like to know more about mdkkdm and what it's
>> plans are?

Thank you for restoring it.

>> What is the whole reason behind mdkkdm? Just branding or is there some goal
>> to new added functionality that's being worked on?

>There is not new feature.

What's the point then?

>> In the past I've seen mdk changes that were not liked at first, I remember
>> some rpmdrake things that really pissed people off, but mdk came through
>> with a very nice rpmdrake. I trust that will happen with mdkkdm as well,
>> but I'm glad the choice isn't taken away from us now to use what we want to
>> use.

In those other instances, there were serious flaws with the program being replaced, 
eg. rpmdrake

>> I think kde's kdm is really nice, couldn't the kdm that's already there
>> just have some branding added to it by mdk without redoing the layout and
>> functions? 

> New kdm is a just a redesign of kdm.

It's a lot of work to redesign the UI of something that is very nice already.  I would 
be more agreeable to spending time on this if there was a major feature add.

Gregory K. Meyer

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