On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 23:09 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > I just have to ask. I was reading through an article on slashdot.org, > and I found a suprising number of comments which amounted to "KDE on > RedHat is bad". 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? > > Peace. Ignoring the fact that slashdot talk-backs are the least reliable source in universe (though I do enjoy the :5 Funny ones), there's a huge anti-RedHat and anti-Fedora sentiment that I never could figure out. KDE under RH and Fedora -always- worked for me (and I've been using it since ~RH7.x); while I didn't like the KDE BlueCurve theme (RH9?), replacing it took me 5 seconds and I don't really remember having any other issues with it. (I never switched to FC1; I stuck with RH9 until FC2 was released) Other then that, up until FC3 Fedora stuck with the "One GNOME and one KDE versions per release - no upgrade during lifetime" philosophy which annoyed many users. (I wonder why Fedora/GNOME users never complain about not having the latest GNOME when a new version is released?). However, lately, both FC4 and FC5 have received the latest KDE releases as an upgrade. (Though Fedora -should- consider keeping KDE in -testing for a longer period) In short, Fedora is GNOME centric, which means: "All the configuration tools are GNOME/GTK ones" and you may have to work harder when you find bugs (Report upstream and FYI bugzilla.redhat) but for me Fedora/KDE was just as good as any other distribution I ever used. To wrap things up, if you want the best of KDE/Fedora, look no further then kde-redhat[1]. This project is committed to bring the best KDE experience to Fedora/RHEL. As for the future, KDE/core and KDE-RedHat are slowly being merged into a single entity in -extra that should improve the KDE support in Fedora. - Gilboa [1] http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/
