On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 14:26 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > Mike Cohler wrote: > > I see that there is a long thread in fedora-devel about whether to > > push KDE out into extras. There are a lot of people out there (Linus T > > for one !) who feel that KDE should be part of the OS. I would hate > > to see KDE pushed out of the core. > > > > What do you think ? > > Disclaimer: I am not a KDE user. I am not a user of the KDE desktop, nor developing KDE applications, but I am a user of a couple of KDE applications. > I think moving KDE to Extras is not a bad idea because: I think it is. > 1. Extras really should not be regarded as a "second class citizen" to > Core in the first place, and I wouldn't be sure. Though I on one hand agree that RH's work on KDE has not been a "proof of exellence", on the other hand, I think, a couple of overly ambitious KDE hackers in Extras could be harmful. > 2. It would be maintained in Extras by the same people that brought you > the kde-redhat project, so you'd probably get better-packaged, more up > to date releases than is currently possible in Core. C.f. my comment to 1) above. 3. It would close out RH from a technology, other Linux distributors consider to be essential. - If RH's management thinks they can afford discoupling from KDE, ... future will tell who's right and who's wrong. 4. It would close out KDE apps from Core. So, I'd recommend somebody to write a central, essential application in based on KDE, and RH will be in trouble. In short, I don't think, moving KDE to Extras is helpful. Ralf
