kcron should be in the default install

[Afiefh]

Rationale:

scheduling tasks is something a lot of people need, and the backend is already installed by default in Ubuntu, including kcron would give users who need to schedule tasks much less of a headache.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Heya!

We (that is me and a fellow developer) just concluded the following:

cron is not very useful unless you know how to program or use a command line. After all it's primary use case is to execute scripts for various tasks (most importantly cleanups). Anyway. There are certainly a lot of people who need to schedule tasks, and they certainly all now how to do that with cron, but the average user probably does not have desire for this, nor would they be able to use it (it's not like you can tell kcron "go cleanup my harddisk" or something similar).

So while there is certainly a need for cron and kcron, we do not think that it's availability by default would make most users happier than they are now. Also, I'd like to note that I also only use cron for server maintenace tasks but not anything on my desktop ;-)

I am closing this bug report as won't fix since we don't feel that it would benefit most users. If you feel that we are wrong, feel free to reopen the report and explain why you think that it would indeed be useful for average users who have no clue about command line magic and how to use it for their good.

In any case we wish you a nice day and thank you for this report :)