kde in extras - the devel discussion

[Sean]

On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 10:03:47 -0500
Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:

> There is another possibility: Red Hat could accept outside assistance
> in maintaining KDE in Core.  The point isn't necessarily that KDE
> shouldn't be in core (any more than OpenOffice or Gnome should be) but
> that people who aren't Red Hat employees would like to work on KDE.
> Currently "move to Extras" seems to be the only way to accomplish
> that, and "make Extras indistinguishable from Core" seems to be the
> workaround that would make "move to Extras" not seem to be a slight
> against KDE.  Of course, "Make Extras indistinguishable from Core" is
> a great idea in general.

It's a pretty well established fact that RedHat is a Gnome shop.  So,
they end up doing Gnome support better than KDE.  Moving KDE to Extras
should allow _better_ KDE support for Fedora.  Trying to keep it in
Core for appearance sake, just ignores the realities of the current
situation.  Fedora has always been a Gnome-first distribution with
KDE support added in by RedHat as a nod to those people who prefer it.
There are other distributions that put KDE first; *shrug*.  For those
of us that use Fedora _because_ it's a Gnome distribution, it will be
nice to not have to download all of KDE.

Sean