Re: Red Hat deprecates KDE on RHEL

[Sérgio Basto <sergio@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2018-11-02 at 22:11 -0400, Temlakos wrote:

Everyone:

The Register carried this article:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/02/rhel_deprecates_kde/

saying that Red Hat now deprecates KDE in its Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution.

The article mentions the recent release of Fedora 29, but says not a word about whether Fedora will deprecate KDE as well.

I switched to KDE for a reason. GNOME simply did not show me how to switch users, or do any of the things that, on MS Windows, are practically intuitive. And I understand the reason for it. GNOME mimics MacOS, while KDE mimics Windows.

I believe that GNOME has come to dominate for one reason only: those who develop distributions, like GNOME and dislike KDE. There's just something about KDE that, while it is user-friendly, is not developer-friendly--at least, not to the developers of operating systems. (Developers of applications might have a different story to tell.)

I suggest to this community that we have arrived at a crisis. In six years, according to The Register, Red Hat Enterprise Linux will not support a KDE installation or maintenance.

What are the maintainers of KDE going to do about this?

Will Fedora's maintainers do the same thing that RHEL maintainers have announced their intention to do?

Temlakos

Until 2024 we have time to think , we will have Deepin as alternative and we still have a lot of choices xfce 

etc [2]  

By curiosity today I noticed that qt5 was included in RHEL7 (about a year ago) [1] 

[1]

https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/qt5-qtbase.git/?h=epel7

[2]

https://spins.fedoraproject.org/

-- 
Sérgio M. B.

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