On fre, 2004-07-23 at 22:25 -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > >>So far people have express a desire to move: > >>KDE > > > > > > I still think that moving KDE away from core is a Bad Idea. I have > > always preferred KDE over GNOME, as many other people do. > > Know that there may also be benefits to moving KDE to Extras. > * Red Hat does not emphasize enigneering work on KDE. Most of the RH > desktop team works mainly on GNOME. > * As a result our KDE is always not as good as it could be. > * Community members care about KDE. > * Thus community members would do a better job of providing a more > polished KDE experience in Fedora. There is already a KDE-on-Red Hat/Fedora community project, as we all know. It would be ideal for that packager- and userbase to maintain KDE for FE. The only problem as I see it, is that the current KDE-on-Red Hat/Fedora project builds a version of KDE that incorporates patented technologies, such as mpeg playback (xine-lib, lame etc). Hopefully it's possible to split those parts out in separate packages and throw into Fedora Free World (aka livna). Rex, what do you say? /Peter > However even entertaining this idea, we have several large challenges: > * Currently we have no way of pulling in Extras into the installer. > This would probably be an absolute requirement before this could happen. > * The Extras KDE maintainer(s) would need to be at both a very high > technical and trust level to make sure it does not stray on the whims of > 50 less experienced people who will undoubtedly submit less than ideal > changes. > * Changes to KDE must be done without compromising the Fedora/RH way of > doing things. This would mean tight communication/collaboration with > the RH desktop team. > > Warren Togami > wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx -- Peter Backlund <peter.backlund@xxxxxxx>
