Is Redhat/Fedora Losing Interest in KDE?

[Jim Cornette]

Leonard Isham wrote:

>On 12/16/05, Mike McGrath <imlinux at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>David Cary Hart wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:33:58 -0500
>>>Chasecreek Systemhouse <chasecreek.systemhouse at gmail.com> opined:
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>>>>On 12/16/05, David Cary Hart <Fedora at tqmcube.com> wrote:
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>>>>>KDE was never updated to 3.4.3. 3.5.0 was released on November 26
>>>>>yet even the rawhide build is incomplete.
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>>>>That's strange -- have you looked at the "dev" fc5 branch?  I seen 3.5
>>>>related things in there.
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>>>Yes. Arts, Kdepim and Kdebase are still RC-2
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>>>>My LinuxPPC FC5 iMac runs KDE much better than Gnome (gnome crashes
>>>>eash time I try to use it.)
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>>>I don't want to (re)ignite the Gnome-Kde food fight but I much prefer
>>>KDE.
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>>I don't want to reignite anything hostile threads either.... but you're
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>>http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/13/1340215
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>It gets really interesting when you follow the links and see exactly
>what Linus said.
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>--
>Leonard Isham, CISSP
>Ostendo non ostento.
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This excerpt is pretty much my view on the dumb buttons vs. address bar. 
I said something similar on the development list, before pointed to this 
post.

Same with the file dialog. Apparently it's too "confusing" to let users 
just type the filename. So gnome forces you to do the icon selection 
thing, never mind that it's a million times slower.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-November/msg00518.html

I still prefer GNOME over KDE, Linus does make a good point regarding 
GNOME and their dumbing down the interface.

Jim

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