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From: Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 09:23, Angus Auld wrote:
> > Greetings, I wonder if someone could explain to me just
> > exactly what Kxine is? I know that it says in the description
> > that it is a graphic frontend for Xine to integrate into KDE.
> > I already had an entry in my KDE menu for Xine, so what
> > does Kxine do that Xine can't, in relation to KDE?
> >
>
> It's more a matter of preference for GUI. Sometimes, Gnome style apps
> don't play nicely in KDE - and vice versa. Either which, if the current
> GUI for Xine works, why change it?
>
> > I installed Kxine, and now I have Xine and Kxine in my menu :-/
> > I tried to gain understanding from Kxine's Handbook, but the writers
> > are obviously practical jokers or something. (eg. "Kxine is an application
> > specially designed to do nothing you would ever want." from Kxine
> > Handbook pg. 1)
> >
> > Any further enlightenment would be greatly appreciated.
> > Enquiring minds want to know ;-)
> >
>
> KXine, EXine, QXine, GXine are only front-end wrappers that actually
> contain code that allows hackers in North Korea to use "global
> processing power" to compute General Kim II's popularity on a worldwide
> basis.
>
> > TIA.
> >
> > --Angus
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I see. I wonder if that same code could be used to calculate the price of potatoes in
New York? <g>
Is Xine from the same ppl that give us Kazaa? ;-)
Thanks for your reply Stephen.........enlightening and entertaining.
Best regards to all you mates "down under".
PS. It's freezing cold here in eastern Canada (-25C this morning)........I hope
the SUMMER weather is nice there.
--Angus
"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness."--James
Thurber
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