From kde-core-devel Tue Mar 11 06:34:07 2003 From: Navindra Umanee Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 06:34:07 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: glib in kdesupport: yes or no? X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=104736457225258 Havoc Pennington wrote: > only for GNOME, that people would have felt we were screwing KDE (well > also, my opinion is that we *would* have been screwing KDE). So we did You've certainly done some good work as you note. Stuff that makes sense for both desktops. So kudos for that. > so we were forced to take some action. A lot of people felt that > fragmentation was intractable and we must choose sides. Preston and I You *did* choose sides. GNOME is the Red Hat default, and that's *fine*. However, the casual user who installs KDE (for whatever unlikely reason) will find themselves presented with an environment that suffers from both GNOME and KDE bloat and sports an interface that looks virtually identical to GNOME but buggier (given the lack of KDE manpower at Red Hat). Where's the sense in that? People were already very pleased with the state of KDE in Red Hat 7.3 but now it's likely that people who have already deployed KDE will look at KDE in Red Hat 8.0 and reject it. I'm sure Bero et al could have kept KDE in acceptable shape while providing decent integration in GNOME. Later, Navin.