Fedora Core 2 wishlists

[Ronny Buchmann]

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 10:26, Julien Olivier wrote:
> > Consider yourself flamed ;-)
> > I completely disagree on this. Currently, KDE and GNOME are of equal
> > value. There's great GNOME software, like Evolution, and incredible KDE
> > software, like K3B. Many people, use both, like me. Removing one of them
> > is a great mistake, I think.
>
> Well, as K3B isn't provided on the isos, I fail to see how removing KDE
> from the isos would make you lose K3B :)
>
> > I don't see why... Instead, both KDE and GNOME communities are working
> > together towards integration and common goals. Removing KDE or GNOME
> > completely makes no sense and limits the freedom of choice.
>
> My idea on the subject is that Fedora *Core* should provide only one DE
> (GNOE) but could (should) provide apps from the other DE (KDE). What I
> don't like is have several apps for the same task. So I'd say that the
> best is to provide GNOME libs and KDE libs, the GNOME desktop and the
> best apps for each task (OOO for office, Mozilla for web-browsing,
> Evolution for email, K3B for CD burning, Quanta for HTML editing,
> etc...).
>
> If people want to replace the GNOME desktop by the KDE desktop, they
> could still yum install it.
KDE has a user base as strong as GNOME.

Removing KDE from Core (on CD) would mean that all KDE users need a broadband internet
connection.

Also there is no "best" E-Mail Client, KMail for example has many advantages over Evolution.

-- 
ronny