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 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.

I thought they might require gnomelibs not gnome-desktop. But that
just goes to show my lack of understanding I suppose.

>
> > 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
>
>
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