desktop printing

[Arturo]

Stuart Jansen wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 13:55 +0000, Arturo wrote:
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>>Sorry for the offtopic question. I like Fedora, and I plan to stick to 
>>it, but why does it so often feel that the Fedora devs just simply 
>>forget KDE?
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>What follows is purely opinion formed while observing the development of
>Linux for many years. It does not necessarily represent the opinion of
>my employer, RH, SUSE, Linus Torvalds, Lee Iacocca, Vladmir Putin, or
>any other person, organization, or entity, living, non-living, or
>yet-to-live, besides myself.
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>My guess would be that it's one part strategic, one part historical.
>First, the history: RH has generally striven to ship only unencumbered
>software. When it ships anything else, it's usually because an
>alternative doesn't exist. If you go back many years, Qt used to be
>partially encumbered, thereby making KDE less than Free (per. FSF
>definition). The issue was resolved, but not before Gnome had gained
>momentum. Now we get to the strategic part. It takes time and money to
>maintain a polished desktop. RH has invested more into Gnome. SUSE has
>invested more in KDE. RH has taken alot of abuse over KDE, but in my
>opinion SUSE has historically done even worse with Gnome. (Hopefully
>this will change as Novell continues to integrate Novell, Ximian, and
>SUSE to form a single company.) Both RH and SUSE are commercial
>entities, they have to prioritise and allocate resources. Gentoo and
>Debian, both of which are mostly volunteer based, have done a decent job
>of packaging both desktops, only occasionally demonstrating a partial
>preference for one or the other. And that's the root of the problem.
>Companies are best off picking one general direction and sticking to it,
>volunteers can afford to explore the whole map.
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>Now we come to where you fit in. Because RH is welcoming volunteer
>support in the development of Fedora, you can help improve the quality
>of KDE support in Fedora. The more you do by testing, reporting bugs,
>and submitting patches, the more momentum KDE will have within the
>Fedora project.
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>Until then, don't be surprised if Gnome enjoys a favored status simply
>because more people developing and testing Fedora are using it. Some
>people get upset or make accusations, but resist the temptation. Just
>keep providing gentle reminders like you did in your message.
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Well thanks for that. Honestly, I just wanted to know. This is not going 
to make me change to SUSE ( :) not yet at least ) or anything. If some 
information like this was posted on the http://fedora.redhat.com website 
that would make things alot clearer.

Thank you.
Peace