On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 11:56:25AM -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > I'm nowdays using XFCE a lot but I do believe its a logical candidate for > extras. I'm not so sure personally about KDE being an extras item. If someone > said "you have two CD-ROM images no more" then I'd consider KDE for extras > but not with four. > > The politics is unfortunate because its not neccessarily about which is best > (current hypothesis: they serve different user needs so there is no more a > 'best' than arguing about two very different cars - it depends what you use > it for and how you use it). Its about building an integrated consistent > environment. When people speak of moving KDE to extras, which parts of it do they mean? The whole DE, applets, applications, libraries? QT? There are many KDE/QT applications which serve a particular function better than any GNOME/GTK counterpart, such as k3b. It would be a shame to lose some of the better applications simply because they are bundled with KDE or use KDE infrastructure...
