On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 10:21 PM Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 22:11:20 -0400, you wrote: > > >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. > > I would argue that this is a benefit to KDE on RHEL. > > The Desktop enviornment is really inherently unsuited to the long term > unchanging RHEL (or LTS from others) where the changes year to year > are simply too significant to allow a 4+ year old installation to > remain relevant. > If it was unchanging in RHEL, I'd agree with you... > By removing KDE from RHEL 8 this makes it easier for somone like the > Fedora KDE group to provide KDE in a form that remains relevant > through the lifecycle of RHEL 8. Unless a company using RHEL really, > really wants that Desktop support they may well find the KDE option > (perhaps on a more corporate friendly 12 month cycle instead of the > Fedora 6 month, who knows) to be a better option than the Gnome > installation that will at some point become hopelessly out of date. I would agree with you, except Red Hat has been rebasing GNOME every other RHEL 7 point release (basically, once a year). As of RHEL 7.6, the version of GNOME shipped in RHEL 7 is v3.28, which is what shipped in Fedora 28... They did actually give the same treatment to KDE (bump from 4.8 to 4.14). But, KDE SC 4 went EOL and Plasma 5 became the focus of the KDE community in 2015, so that was the end of the line for RHEL 7. I can't fault Red Hat for pulling out of KDE, since even I've had trouble "keeping the faith" until Plasma 5.8, where it seemed like things finally stopped breaking on each upgrade. I do wish that they hadn't let go their KDE engineers over the last couple of years, though. It was nice having Red Hat engineers care about KDE a little bit... However, we're in a great spot in Plasma 5 now, Providing KDE Plasma 5 in EPEL for EL7 may be possible if Red Hat rebases Qt 5 to 5.12 LTS once it releases. As for EL8, we'll have to wait and see... -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
