Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 00:38 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> On Thursday 15 January 2009, Linuxguy123 wrote: >> > There was a lot of user frustration that prior versions of KDE didn't >> > work properly because of issues attributed to nvidia. I think its our >> > responsibility to test/work this out in the release candidate and make >> > sure that things do work properly now. >> >> It is not. Proprietary drivers are not supported. >> >> I don't see why we should put stuff on the live CD which are not part of >> Fedora. We want you to test Fedora, not some proprietary crap. > > BECAUSE YOUR USERS NEED IT TO FULLY USE KDE ! > > Kevin, KDE does not live in a bubble. It has to interact with other > things in the real world. Like nVidia graphics cards and nVidia device > drivers. > > So it needs to be tested with them so that the users *in the real world* > get a product that has been tested *in a real world environment*. I disagree here. I am using the nv driver and do not have any performance issues. The blobs are not necessary to get DE running. > Kevin, I've been watching your actions in bugzilla and I have to say > that I find your manner and your actions to be crass and > inconsiderate. > > You seem to want to close every bug off as either notabug or upstream or > anything that would have a Fedora person be responsible for it. I just > don't understand your actions. > > In this case it won't do anyone any good to sweep the nVidia issue under > the rug during testing. Its real, it exists and its applicable to the > end users. It needs to be tested. The blob is not a part of Fedora. Please report to rpmfusion or to nVidia directly. --Ben > Sorry to everyone else for the rant.
