On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 13:23 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 22:49 -0400, Jon Nettleton wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 04:42 +0200, Miloslav Trmac wrote:
> > Arthur Pemberton napsal(a):
> > > Well I can take your word on that. However, it is handly encouraging
> > > when one selects all KDE apps in Anaconda-Pirut and then I boot and
> > > find gdm. And the only way to fix tha tis to manually uninstall gdm or
> > > edit /etc/X11/predm
> > It is hardly encouraging to see posts implying that KDE is intentionally
> > crippled" on fedora-devel ;)
> >
> > (echo DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE >> /etc/sysconfig/desktop)
> > Mirek
> >
> I hardly think that KDE is intentionally crippled at all. If anything
> my guess is that it just isn't as thoroughly tested. I think this
> reflects more on the participation of KDE users in the testing process
> of the Fedora development process. I guess the only proof to that
> statement would be some fancy bugzilla reporting. If a bug exists for
> one community or the other, it isn't going to be fixed unless it is
> reported.
One factor to consider is those that have a preference for either KDE or
Gnome are likely to choose a distro that defaults to their preferred
desktop. So, since Fedora defaults to Gnome, it's more likely that
Gnome users will use it (which makes it a sort of self-fulfilling
prophecy).
I wouldn't be surprised to find that distros that default to KDE get
less testing with Gnome.
I completely agree that can be the case. Looking back at my statement I
can see how it can be mis-construed. I didn't mean that the KDE users
weren't pulling their weight in debugging. In participation I clearly
meant numbers of user and bugs filed, which also might be wrong. That
is why I suggested looking at bugzilla. Obviously the proper solution
to this isn't to discuss the holy trinity, but for the original poster
to file a bugzilla and get the issued resolved.
Jon