kde 3.5.3: well done!!

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:29 +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> Only tested for one day, but startup time has passed form 19 secs to
> 13 secs and responsiveness inside the DE is much more aggressive than
> 3.5.2!
> Well done, kde guys and fedora guys!!!
> But why doesn't fedora switch to kde finally? Or at least neither was
> kde evaluated as a possible default DE for fedora core 6 cycle review?

Defaults are usually not reviewed for every release. The choice between
GNOME and KDE is not clear cut. Someone will want XFCE as default.
Others fluxbox. 

> I think it should happen a serious comparison between available
> opportunities at least at first stages after fc5 release and before
> fc6 work...
> but probably rh developers are much more involved with gnome core too,
> are they?

That is a well known fact. 

>  Otherwise I don't see other valid reasons to discard apriori
> kde as default DE.
> Would it be at least choosable as the default DE during installation of fc6...?

What prevents you from choosing KDE and leaving out GNOME during the
installation process?

Rahul