What is the official/semi-official positon of Fedora on KDE?

Leaf grove.warden at gmail.com
Sat Apr 9 16:20:53 UTC 2005


On Saturday 09 April 2005 11:01, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> Claude Jones wrote:
> > Leaf wrote:
> >> On Saturday 09 April 2005 09:48, Claude Jones wrote:
> >>> Could you explain your last comment. I ran KDE 3.4 when I brought up a
> >>> new FC4t1 box. I couldn't find any remarkable differences between it
> >>> and
> >>> my current implementation - I found a couple of annoyances, however.
> >>> The
> >>> list of menu options had been cut way back, and even the Control Center
> >>> was not present as an option and had to be called up by a command. I'm
> >>> sure I missed things - from a read of the release notes, it seems like
> >>> many of the improvements had to with accessibility, and obviously for
> >>> those who need them, those features are extremely important. But, what
> >>> else has been improved?
> >>
> >> That is all odd, my Kmenu options fill the screen and the Control
> >> Center has been there from the moment I installed.  As an FYI I
> >> installed FC3 with none of the Gnome packages and all of the KDE
> >> (from the CDs).  Then I updated everything, including KDesktop to
> >> 3.4.  I haven't seen the issues you mention.
> >
> > But you upgraded from the previous version. Mine was the default
> > installation under FC4t1. I changed nothing during setup regarding
> > KDE, except to choose it as my default desktop after FC4 was up and
> > running. The issues I describe are how it came up under a default
> > install - now granted, FC4t1 is what it is, and by final release, many
> > things will change, including the issues I describe. Since you
> > upgraded from a previous version, under FC3, your experience was
> > different. But, my question is, what are the big improvements in KDE
> > over the current version, apart from the accessibility improvements;
> > the FC4 install issues are obviously not a proper subject here.
>
> I think the content of the menus are up to the distro packers, not the
> KDE devs. So chances are the Fedora guys just left Kmenu a bit empt.
> Maybe it's due to testing.

My mistake, you did mention FC4 and I missed it.  Keep in mind also that the 
versions I received were from the kde-redhat repo, I am not sure if that is 
what is one FC4.  Also FC4 itself is likely your issue, the release that is.  
Did you list these issues as bugs?




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