Re: What's going on guys?

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Rex Dieter <[email protected]> wrote:
> [ snip ]
> 
>>> 1. The "powers that be" of Fedora still seem to consider KDE a "second
>>> class" citizen.
>> Really, what makes you think that?
> 
> The ongoing '"Default" spin of Fedora' thread leads me to believe that
> things are far from cozy. Maybe "powers that be" was a poor choice of
> words.

Yeah, that's lame.  They should just own-up and call it the gnome spin. 
  They *claim* the "Desktop" spin includes only best-of-breed apps... if 
so, where is k3b or amarok (among other very fine and deserving kde apps)?

> What I don't have a grasp of is the
> significance of the numbers.
> 
> I like KDE and I like the Fedora community, but how much effort can
> you guys put in for what could literally eventually be for only dozens
> of user?

Don't sell KDE short.  There are *many* kde users, particularly outside 
the US.

> The combined effect of highlighting a single "Desktop Spin" and the
> some what unintuitive procedure from getting a clean KDE desktop from
> the DVD media doesn't seem to bode well for us.

I'm curious, what is your definition of "clean KDE desktop" ?

My current beef is that gdm is unconditionally installed everywhere 
(except when using KDE Live image), and I'm working on getting that 
resolved for F10.

> On a more positive note, if at some time in the future, I can commit
> to maintain a website or sub-site to highlight KDE in fedora efforts,
> would that be considered a good idea? or something that may breed
> additional division?

That would be fabulous.  Would be ideal to host such information within 
fedora's site/wiki, but beggars can't be choosers. :)

-- Rex


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