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List:       quanta
Subject:    Re: [Quanta] Problem with mailto: links in Quanta
From:       Eric Laffoon <sequitur () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-12-20 11:22:45
Message-ID: 200512200322.45512.sequitur () kde ! org
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On Monday 19 December 2005 9:53 pm, Graeme Nichols wrote:
> I know this is not a Quanta problem but I was hoping you would point me
> in the right direction where I can get an answer.
>
> Ta,
>
> Graeme.

As Jens pointed out Quanta is in kdewebdev. I've pointed out on the list a 
number of times that Fedora is a perpetual beta for Red Hat's RHEL server and 
as such it's not going to be at the same level of polish of other desktop 
oriented distributions. I think it may have gotten better because early on it 
was a full major point release behind everyone and was not capable of 
compiling KDE due to C++ bugs. Every serious review of Fedora acknowledges it 
takes a lot of work to get close to usable, but it's not ready for prime 
time, then Red Hat has a PR piece commissioned and get more testers, but 
those people aren't feeding back to RH, but to application devlopers. 
Invariably we get lots of requests for problems we've never seen because 
they're introduced in packaging.

Let's face it. Red Hat is raking in a stinking huge pile of money compared to 
the trace residue that falls in our hands under their table. The only way 
they will stop breaking software in the packaging stage is if users make 
enough noise to them about what was broken. The idea that we can be a free 
resource for the software they don't collect huge license fees on is, if you 
really think about it, tragically unjust. I find it slightly odd they make so 
many changes that pure probability says will cause bugs for seemingly no 
apparent reason. Don't they know what they did?

If you build all the software as released it works. If you shuffle and tweak 
it enough in packaging you have a package your service department can justify 
your costs with. We just want to make good software. The people who broke it 
and who are making money off of servicing it should fix it to the level we 
released and then we can take it from there. Alternately you could make your 
life easier choosing SUSE, Ark, Kubuntu, Mandriva or one of numerous distros 
that focus on an end user desktop. ;-)
-- 
Eric Laffoon - Quanta+ Team Leader 
http://quanta.kdewebdev.org
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