Re: What's going on guys?
Rex Dieter <[email protected]>
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Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Rex Dieter <[email protected]> wrote: >> Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> From >> the recent fedora-list thread, my perception of it was that most people >> seem to be satisfied with how things are progressing, and that there are >> only a few very vocal members of our community who are genuinely unhappy. > > I've gone to Ubuntu, so you don't hear me complaining about it here anymore. Ubuntu has kde-4.0 available too, just they went through the much extra pain to make it parallel-installable to a kde3 desktop too. > ... KDE 4 is a weakness caused by the KDE team itself, > as far as I can see. KDE had all those cool features in 3.5.8 and then > they disappeared in 4.0. I'm not a developer, but I think it would > have been smarter (more honest) to label KDE 4.0 as KDE 3.9 or > something like that, so distributions would stay away from it. But > when they labeled it 4.0, the temptation was irresistable. > > The F9 also adopted the beta xorg framework, and so adopting the > not-yet-ready KDE was entirely consistent. Thanks for the followup Paul. True, there's pros/cons that go into every decision on when to include these bits in fedora. It just so happens that we don't agree 100% on whether the pros outweigh the cons in these cases. And that's ok. :) I'm also ok with possibly/someday agreeing with you that it wasn't the best decision to include kde-4.0, but I don't think I'll ever get there. warning... another soapbox moment coming on... Leading the pack wrt free software and innovation, is sometimes a little painful. We've seen that recently in fedora, for example with PulseAudio, NetworkManager(0.7, *still* not released), xorg, and now kde4. I'm more than glad to help blaze the path for others to follow. -- Rex ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php