PROPOSAL: Core redefinition

Felipe Alfaro Solana felipe_alfaro at linuxmail.org
Sun Jul 25 22:45:51 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 21:07 +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:

> I find the suggestion to remove KDE from Core ridiculous, as it affects
> a significant part of the user base. A rather arrogant proposal from a
> few Gnome centered people. Maybe I should suggest to keep KDE in Core
> and move Gnome to Extras in return. Note that I am rather neutral on
> which of those desktops is the best. I've been using Gnome the last
> couple of months, but before I used KDE on a regular basis. I think
> there is place for both in Core, as well as for one or two of the
> lightweight desktop environments/window managers.

I agree with Leonard that the idea of removing KDE from Core and moving
it to Extras is ridiculous. KDE has a big user base, and the general
feeling is that Red Hat has never paid enough attention to KDE. Moving
KDE to Extras means even less attention,  which KDE does not deserve.





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