Is KDE on Fedora really that bad?

[Aron Smith]

On Thursday 02 November 2006 09:47, Mauriat Miranda wrote:
> On 11/2/06, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> > Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > > I'm using the Fedora-provided KDE, I don't see what the problems with
> > > it are supposed to be. It works great for me.
> >
> > Same here.
> >
> > It is amazing that this long thread appears to be based on
> > an apparent problem with KDE,
> > but no-one as far as I can see has said what the problem is.
>
> That's because everyone here is essentially comparing KDE on Fedora
> with Gnome on Fedora. Not a problem with KDE, but specifically a
> problem with Fedora's packaging of KDE.
>
> The original author asked "As somone who has never tried anything but
> Fedora, but love KDE, I need to know...am I getting a raw deal without
> knowing it?"
>
> Who here has tried and compared both KDE on Fedora *AND* KDE on Suse,
> on Kubuntu, on Mandriva, on Slackware, on Gentoo, on Debian? Would
> those people please step up and say in no ambiguous terms what is
> better about other distributions versions of KDE as opposed to KDE on
> Fedora?
>
> For example... I for one find KDE on Suse significantly more polished
> than on Fedora. I liked the QT/KDE based utilities nicer than the GTK
> apps on FC. I don't like on Fedora I could access certain applets out
> of the box for Gnome but had to pull them from extras in KDE. Or that
> I could access "Suspend" or "Hibernate" in the Gnome menu, but I
> couldn't easily find them in KDE on FC (at least on FC5).
>
> Obviously Fedora puts much more focus in Gnome than KDE. I am not
> complaining, it is just a fact.
>
> I am a Gnome user by the way.
ever try Xcfe ?
>
> -Mauriat