Introduction: new community guy, and some discussion

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Thu Feb 5 21:06:46 UTC 2009


On Thursday 05 February 2009 19:46:47 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Thursday 05 February 2009 03:01:27 Adam Williamson wrote:
> >> Hi! I am Adam Williamson. I am working for Red Hat as of this Monday.
> >
> > Hi Adam.  Good to talk to you again.  One thing I'd like you to think
> > about, though I have no idea what can be done about it.  It's well-known
> > that distros tweak KDE to make things work more to their liking.  It's
> > equally well-known that the practice can cause some friction :-) and
> > users asking KDE people about problems are quite likely to be told that
> > there is no help because it is down to some action of Fedora.
>
> Fedora rarely patches KDE other than a few minor backports and some
> tweaking of defaults but this sort of criticism goes both ways. While
> other distributions patched KDE 4 heavily to make it parallel
> installable with KDE 3, Fedora did not and received quite a bit of flake
> for that. What would be the upstream standpoint on this?
>
There are no winners, Rahul.  Personally I've been using both Fedora and 
Mandriva, and I can see advantages in both approaches.

I'm not asking for anything to change, just some guidance that make sure that 
we understand what is and what is not a Fedora issue.  At the moment I tend to 
base my judgement on whether I can see the problem in both my distros, and 
preferably get a *buntu user to say that they also see the problem.  If I 
can't get some confirmation I'm inclined to think that it's probably Fedora.

Anne
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