kde 3.5.3: well done!!

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 6/20/06, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:29 +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> > Only tested for one day, but startup time has passed form 19 secs to
> > 13 secs and responsiveness inside the DE is much more aggressive than
> > 3.5.2!
> > Well done, kde guys and fedora guys!!!
> > But why doesn't fedora switch to kde finally? Or at least neither was
> > kde evaluated as a possible default DE for fedora core 6 cycle review?
>
> Defaults are usually not reviewed for every release. The choice between
> GNOME and KDE is not clear cut. Someone will want XFCE as default.
> Others fluxbox.
>
> > I think it should happen a serious comparison between available
> > opportunities at least at first stages after fc5 release and before
> > fc6 work...
> > but probably rh developers are much more involved with gnome core too,
> > are they?
>
> That is a well known fact.
>
> >  Otherwise I don't see other valid reasons to discard apriori
> > kde as default DE.
> > Would it be at least choosable as the default DE during installation of fc6...?
>
> What prevents you from choosing KDE and leaving out GNOME during the
> installation process?
>
> Rahul


Ekiga and Evince require the entire gnome desktop somewhow. Although
they can be replaced, I suppose, Evince is kinda nice, and no
equivallent Qt/KDe app exists in Extras that I know of for Ekiga.

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