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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE Linux/BSD distribution
From:       "N. Thompson" <n.thomp () sasktel ! net>
Date:       2004-10-26 13:14:17
Message-ID: 200410260714.17342.n.thomp () sasktel ! net
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I didn't like Yoper, like many of the current KDE based distributions they've 
modified KDE in such a way as to have their icon show up instead of the KDE 
icon and last time I used their distribution they had few packages available. 

Not being specific to Yoper here but it seems the majority of distributions 
tend to modify the KDE menu layout to make their distribution incompatible 
with otherwise perfectly good RPMs and often they also mess up the default 
icon theme or do the best they can to make sure their own icons don't ever 
get replaced with the ones that should be there when you change icon themes. 
Also what I had in mind was a distribution that would try to have the latest 
and greatest KDE out as soon as all the bugs were ironed out but wouldn't do 
a rush job, bug testing is a key issue and most distributions forget all 
about that, most distributions also don't go out of their way to update KDE 
when an updated version is available. Again another thing I think a lot of 
distributions are doing wrong is making their own control panel applications 
rather then building modules for the already existing KDE Control Centre, I 
think its a waste to do that and it would be confusing to the user.

In reply to another one of the posts I know its a lot of work to make my own 
distribution from scratch, I was thinking about this last night and 
personally all I think we really need to do is find a way to install another 
great distribution, change the software to what we want and update the KDE to 
the latest version then learn how to make packages for it, include all the 
best KDE software, remove all the unnecessary Gnome components and make it 
installable by CD. No distribution I can think of includes great KDE 
software, tweaks from KDE-look.org and other stable enhancements and software 
that hasn't made it into the official KDE branch yet.

On October 26, 2004 01:12 am, Scott Newton wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:15, N. Thompson wrote:
> > I'm just tossing around this idea I've had for a long time, I've always
> > wanted a distribution that focused all of its attention on making the
> > best KDE desktop available with the latest version and all the cool
> > enhancements.
>
> Have you had a look at Yoper? (http://www.yoper.com/)
>
> --
> Regards
> Scott Newton
>
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