[Fwd: Question: Will Fedora 10 Contain KDE 3.5.10 or Not?]

[Jesse Keating]

Fun email in my inbox.  Would the KDE sig care to respond?

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From: S.W. Bobcat <swbobcat at hotmail.com>
To: jkeating at redhat.com
Subject: Question: Will Fedora 10 Contain KDE 3.5.10 or Not?
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 19:38:29 +0000

Dear Mr. Keating:

I would appreciate an answer to a question: will Fedora 10 include KDE
3.5.10?? As you are probably aware there is considerable anger out in
the community over the KDE 4 issue. 

I have been a loyal Fedora user since Fedora 1. I am also a loyal KDE
user. I was outraged when Fedora 9 was released not only because it
included only  KDE 4.0, but the responses from the Fedora devels which a
best could be described as arrogant, and at worst non careing. You do
not build a community with that type of attitude. From what I have read
KDE 4.1 -- which I suspect is going to be one of the "features" in
Fedora 10 -- still sucks, only less that KDE 4.0. There is some
controversy as weither Fedora 10 will also include KDE 3.5.10. All the
major distros have included KDE 3.5.x as an option / or in addition to,
KDE 4.x. I am hoping -- praying -- that the Fedora Project will include
KDE 3.5.10 in Fedora 10. There is no excuse to putting users through the
ringers or make them jump through hoops for them to be able to use KDE
3.5.x simply for them to be able to use the GUI of their choice. The
Fedora Project should not view their users simply as gueina pigs for Red
Hat and RHEL. I have no problem testing out new software etc so long as
I have the ability to default back to a stable and mature version of
said software. 

KDE 3.5.10 should be included as a "feature" in Fedora 10 simple because
KDE 4.1 is still nowhere close to being ready for prime time, and still
lacks many of the customization features of KDE 3.5.x While I may want
to tinker with KDE 4.x and evaluate it some more, at the current time I
do not want to rely only on an unproven, buggy GUI no matter how "great"
its potential. Until KDE 4.x becomes more stable and more customizable,
then both KDE 3.5.x and KDE 4.x should be included in Fedora 10 and
future releases ( which probably translates to Fedora 12 or 13 which is
the expected time frame for KDE 4.3 or 4.4 release).

I hope you and/or the Fedora Project leader will address this question
long before Fedora 10 is released.

Sincerely yours, 

R.H. Ruskin

'I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me." --
Rudyard Kipling
-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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