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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE Linux/BSD distribution
From:       Simone Gotti <simone.gotti () email ! it>
Date:       2004-10-26 13:27:51
Message-ID: 200410261527.53791.simone.gotti () email ! it
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On Tuesday 26 October 2004 15:14, N. Thompson wrote:
> 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.

You have described gentoo... 

Bye!
-- 
Simone Gotti
<simone.gotti@email.it>
http://kde-bluetooth.sf.net

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