On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 10:03:47 -0500 Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There is another possibility: Red Hat could accept outside assistance > in maintaining KDE in Core. The point isn't necessarily that KDE > shouldn't be in core (any more than OpenOffice or Gnome should be) but > that people who aren't Red Hat employees would like to work on KDE. > Currently "move to Extras" seems to be the only way to accomplish > that, and "make Extras indistinguishable from Core" seems to be the > workaround that would make "move to Extras" not seem to be a slight > against KDE. Of course, "Make Extras indistinguishable from Core" is > a great idea in general. It's a pretty well established fact that RedHat is a Gnome shop. So, they end up doing Gnome support better than KDE. Moving KDE to Extras should allow _better_ KDE support for Fedora. Trying to keep it in Core for appearance sake, just ignores the realities of the current situation. Fedora has always been a Gnome-first distribution with KDE support added in by RedHat as a nod to those people who prefer it. There are other distributions that put KDE first; *shrug*. For those of us that use Fedora _because_ it's a Gnome distribution, it will be nice to not have to download all of KDE. Sean
