kde 3.5.3: well done!!

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 17:21 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> 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. 

What do you mean by that? You cant really complain that GNOME components
require other GNOME components to work anyway. Thats the whole point of
a desktop environment. 

> Although
> they can be replaced, I suppose, Evince is kinda nice

KPDF and Evince share the same freedesktop.org library (poppler forked
off XPDF) so the file reading capabilities should be the same.

> , and no
> equivallent Qt/KDe app exists in Extras that I know of for Ekiga.

Rahul