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

Claude Jones claude_jones at levitjames.com
Sat Apr 9 20:13:54 UTC 2005


Pete wrote:
| I am using kde-3.4. I cannot say that there are any
| huge differences or apparent improvements, from a
| user's perspective. They have integrated amarok into
| the konqueror sidebar, for one (not that I ever use
| that - better just to open amarok and have a clean
| display when I want to listen to music, and have
| konqueror free to do other things). I imagine it must
| be primarily a bug-fix issue, but there weren't any
| bugs I had come across, that I recall.
| 
| The huge gains (laud! laud!) came when I switched from
| the standard fedora kde to the kde-redhat project
| version of 3.4. Wow! For the first time since the ol'
| redhat daze, the system works like it's supposed to.
| Click on a file and there's music, instead of noatun
| hanging up and kaboodle jamming. There's video, so you
| can watch mpg movies and rent dvds and not have to use
| windows. What's an option to windows worth if you
| can't use it for all your needs? I don't need windows
| and don't use it at all, but only because everything
| works in Linux. There are lots of little things like
| this - I can't remember them all - everything just
| works, all of it! I can't say it enough. It's so good,
| for the first time in years, I'm tempted not to
| upgrade to FC4 (yes, I know I'm dreaming, of course I
| will upgrade, and on the first day possible, but not
| until kde-redhat is ready).
| 

I found the kde-redhat page and the clear instrux on how to
install it using yum. I'm doing it now. I am primarily a tv
producer in my main occupation, so I'm very interested in seeing
all the features you describe. 


Claude Jones
Levit & James, Inc./WTVS
Leesburg, VA, USA





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