Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 17th Feb 2008 20:15 UTC, submitted by Jonathan Roberts
"KDE 4 is seen by many to be the next big step on the free software desktop, while others think releasing 4.0 in its current condition was misleading and a mistake. Either way, it's an innovative release and inline with Fedora's goal of providing the latest and greatest free software it is set to be the default KDE environment in the next major release of Fedora. We caught up with two members of the KDE SIG to talk about the work they're doing to get it ready for release, their own opinions on the software and what they think about the progress made by Fedora in getting over its GNOME centric reputation."
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RE[4]: Unusable. Unready.
by gilboa on Mon 18th Feb 2008 14:23
in reply to "RE[3]: Unusable. Unready."
Member since:2005-07-06
- Fedora -is- GNOME centric (though the KDE-SIG is trying to change that); so I'd venture and guess that most Fedora users are indeed GNOME users. (Then again, I'm not)
- KDE 4.x series is the future - and by design Fedora lives on the bleeding edge.
- If you rather wait for KDE 4.1, nothing forces you to upgrade your trusty F8/KDE/3.5.9 installation with F9/4.0.2 (?).
- And if you do (decide to upgrade), you'd most likely see major improvements within the first 2-3 months of F9.
I really don't understand your point.
- Gilboa
Edited 2008-02-18 14:38 UTC
RE[5]: Unusable. Unready.
by superstoned on Tue 19th Feb 2008 11:03
in reply to "RE[4]: Unusable. Unready."
Member since:2005-07-07
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2005-07-07
There ARE no hard numbers on KDE vs Gnome, just the many surveys done over the years. They used to show a 60-30-10 (KDE-Gnome-other), this might lately have shifted slightly to Gnome due to KDE having no major release in over 2 years - but even then, if it's 50/50, you wouldn't wanna ignore half your userbase. if you doubt these numbers, both KDE and Gnome use them often - I mean the 60-30-10 thing. Look for example here: http://live.gnome.org/10x10
and recent and older KDE slides which mention numbers.