On Thursday 02 November 2006 09:47, Mauriat Miranda wrote: > On 11/2/06, Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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