Re: It is indeed, a very sad day...

On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 13:15, Jason wrote:
> What is the reasoning behind calling KDE in RH 8.0 crippleware?  Has RedHat
> done something to limit/destroy KDE?  Is it to do with making the theme for
> Gnome and KDE look similar?  I have to admit I haven't even seen KDE on 8.0.
> 
> Jason

I thought there were some technical changes Redhat made to how some
internals work in kde as far as I can gather.  Hacking in vfolder
support for one....and its not clear to me that the changes redhat
hacked created some new buggy behavior.  Whether or not the packages
redhat is shipping are crippled in some new way is up in the air since
there could be some unresolved bugs in the new code.  But its clearly
not redhat's intent to cripple kde....or else they wouldn't have made so
much effort to have gnome have kde-ish icons.   I found a run down of
some things Redhat's modifications have changed in a kde mailing list
and some of the effects, right when this all exploded on /...but I can't
find the right url now...grrr.... i'll keep trying to dig it up.

To me the real question as to how "crippled" Redhat's KDE its going to
be is to see to what amount of extra effort 3rd party application
builders have to use to create Redhat KDE specific packages.  But its
not a good omen politically to see a developer leave redhat over
this...I can't see how this is going to help move the camps towards a
resolution in the long term.

-jef

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