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A kitchen sink software implies an image of a kitchen sink filled with dirty dishes. But the solution is not to throw them all away and leave a single dish, still dirty, but at least looking manageable. The solution is to wash all dishes and put them neatly on the rack.

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The idiom "everything but the kitchen sink" (and variant "everything including the kitchen sink") doesn't refer to a sink filled with dirty dishes. Rather, the kitchen sink (originally the kitchen stove) is being used as an example of a particularly bulky item. "Everything but the kitchen sink" means, roughly, everything except for what would be too large and/or absurd to include.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/96582/what-is-th...

Really, because mozilla seamonkey tried that. How do you think that went for them?

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