On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > >>>> I'm also wondering if there would be newer KDE on RHEL. For some >>>> reason a solid base with a newer desktop seems to make sense to me. >>> >>> In what way is KDE under CentOS-6 less "solid" than KDE under Fedora-15? >>> I use both, and I don't find one better (or worse) than the other. >> >> KDE 4.3 is a tad bit too old for my taste, and lacks certain features. >> For example, I just found out that there is no automount option when >> plugging in a USB disk. That feature appeared in KDE 4.4, and here I >> have to use an ugly custom cron job to check every minute whether >> there is a USB hard drive to be mounted or not. > > Personally, I only run CentOS on servers, > and I don't care whether an application is old or new, as long as it runs. > I've updated to CentOS-6, but to be honest > I haven't found anything that is improved from my limited viewpoint. > > In my experience with Fedora, any change to KDE is likely to cause problems > somewhere, so I'd like any update to be put off as long as possible, > as I don't like playing with servers. > > It isn't important, but I didn't understand your example. > Surely you must know if you have attached a USB disk, > and so can mount it at that point? I completely agree with your POV as far as servers are concerned, but I also use CentOS for some desktop machines where long-term support is important. KDE doesn't even need to be installed for most server purposes, while for desktop purposes it would be nice to have a more recent version. As to my usecase, of course, I can always manually mount a connected USB disk. But the machines in question are not used by me, but by some rather computer-illiterate people, who like things to "just happen", and know second to nothing about mounting a filesystem. As I am not around to help them every time someone plugs something into the machine, an automount feature would be more than welcome. :-) Incidentally, having CentOS as a desktop OS for such computer-illiterate people is a very nice solution --- I can perform most of the administrative and configuration tasks remotely, provide excellent desktop support for the clients without ever leaving my own office, and the clients get a stable and robust desktop system that Just Works and doesn't change the appearence and their workflow for several years on. It's a win-win thing, with just a slight drawback that some small pieces of functionality like automounting are unfortunately missing in KDE4.3. Best, :-) Marko _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
