F8 update kills KDE

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Sat Apr 19 18:37:31 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 18:28 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 19 April 2008 17:09:05 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 13:09 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > > max <maximilianbianco <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > > > I wish I had something useful to offer here but I tried KDE on Fedora
> > > > when I first loaded F7. Second class ctizen. It appears that is still
> > > > the case. Perhaps the Fedora KDE lovers are not vocal enough...
> > >
> > > That's not true. What he ran into was just a bug (which should be fixed
> > > already, crossing fingers).
> >
> > It's true to the extent that many people (including RedHat people)
> > assume one is using Gnome, and most or all of the documentation also
> > makes this assumption, especially when explaining how to do stuff from
> > the GUI. It's fair to say that Fedora is a Gnome-centred distro that
> > *also* supports KDE.
> >
> I think that that *was* the case.  I'm not sure that it still is so.  Also, I 
> believe that I read somewhere that RH did a survey of its Enterprise users, a 
> year or so back, and found that around 50% of them use KDE.  That's a big 
> spur to getting to grips with it.  I know that a lot of work has been done on 
> KDE this year.

Might be due to the Mono issue of Gnome as well. I just don't like Gnome
for quite a few reasons. I'll not start a KDE Vs. Gnome issue though.
It's just a matter of what I personally like, is all. :) Ric
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