fedora 6/7 - why do you ignore k3b by default?

[Nicu Buculei]

Valent Turkovic wrote:
> 
> I installed k3b on my gnome desktop after and some kde dependencies
> got also installed. so what?!? is that a bad thing?!? Users don't care

Yes, wasted space is a bad thing:
- on the media space is important, the liveCD had already to leave out 
useful applications due to space constraints;
- for an online install there is much more to download;
- more libraries will require  more updates to be downloaded and 
installed in the future;
- how about machines with a limited amount of RAM?

> which toolkit an app uses - when they can use it and it works.

I detailed in another message why users care. Well, maybe not the users 
coming from Windows, where almost every application has its own 
incompatible look and feel...

> Ok, 3 seconds it too much time to wait :) Then switch to windows, they
> boot much faster than linux :) Speed is not a sane argument here for
> me.

GnomeBaker is much faster to start (because the libraries are already in 
memory).

> I use it all the time, ISO burning the most, making cd and dvd
> compilations of multimedia... etc... formating DVD-RW and DVD+RW's...

I believe you know about ISO burning with a right-click directly from 
Nautilus.

>> Of course, the rule is not always true, as Firefox is preferred to
>> Epiphany, and examples can continue on both sides.
> 
> Firefox is a great example and also is OpenOffice on KDE where it
> feels a bit misplaced but is needed still.

I see quite a lot of KDE users preferring Konqueror instead of Firefox 
and OpenOffice.org was kicked out of the LiveCD because is too large.


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