KDE vs. GNOME on F10

[Christopher Stone]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Adam Williamson<awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:36 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:26 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> >
>> > Well, I think it's really the same issue. The problem is one of
>> > expectation: we have two similar components, GNOME and KDE, in the same
>> > distribution, following different update polices - GNOME favours stable,
>> > KDE favours adventurous. This confounds expectation.
>>
>> I don't know that this is really the case.  KDE is rolling up a bugfix
>> release.  Gnome does bugfix releases.  Other than a difference in how
>> they number them, is there really that big of a difference in what they
>> are doing?
>
> It's not a bugfix release, it's a bit ingenuous to describe it as one.

Except for the fact that it fixes *over 10,000 bugs*. [1]

And I believe the word you are looking for is *dis*ingenuous.

It's hard to believe KDE 4.2 had that many bugs...

[1] http://kde.org/announcements/4.3/index.php