kde 3.5.3: well done!!

[Arthur Pemberton]

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>
> A significant investment has already been put into GNOME, and it remains the
> preferred desktop environment for Fedora Core.

I must admit, something about Gnome just says "commerical client
desktop environment"

> Everyone has a different
> opinion about desktop environments, and there are many Fedora users,
> including myself, who prefer KDE, but it is not a clear majority.

Would be nice if an official poll was conducted...would satisfy my
curiousity at least...i think.

> GNOME will
> remain the default environment for Fedora Core, and KDE will continue to be
> an install-time option. Through Fedora Core 6, KDE will remain in Fedora
> Core.  We're hoping to move it to Extras for Fedora Core 7.  Once there, we
> hope to make it available on a separate disc so that users may choose whether
> to download GNOME or KDE and can choose either one by taking advantage of
> planned improvements in Anaconda, the Fedora Core installer.

Would be nice if there was a cd for XFCE...but that is of little to no
priority I suppose.

> We hope that
> KDE will see better care in Extras, where the community can more easily work
> on it, than it currently gets in Core.
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KDE
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UnleashKDE
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/KDE
>
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