Is KDE on Fedora really that bad?

[Gilboa Davara]

On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 23:09 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> I just have to ask. I was reading through an article on slashdot.org,
> and I found a suprising number of comments which amounted to "KDE on
> RedHat is bad". As somone who has never tried anything but Fedora, but
> love KDE, I need to know...am I getting a raw deal without knowing it?
> 
> Peace.

Ignoring the fact that slashdot talk-backs are the least reliable source
in universe (though I do enjoy the :5 Funny ones), there's a huge
anti-RedHat and anti-Fedora sentiment that I never could figure out.
KDE under RH and Fedora -always- worked for me (and I've been using it
since ~RH7.x); while I didn't like the KDE BlueCurve theme (RH9?),
replacing it took me 5 seconds and I don't really remember having any
other issues with it. (I never switched to FC1; I stuck with RH9 until
FC2 was released)

Other then that, up until FC3 Fedora stuck with the "One GNOME and one
KDE versions per release - no upgrade during lifetime" philosophy which
annoyed many users. (I wonder why Fedora/GNOME users never complain
about not having the latest GNOME when a new version is released?).
However, lately, both FC4 and FC5 have received the latest KDE releases
as an upgrade. (Though Fedora -should- consider keeping KDE in -testing
for a longer period)

In short, Fedora is GNOME centric, which means: "All the configuration
tools are GNOME/GTK ones" and you may have to work harder when you find
bugs (Report upstream and FYI bugzilla.redhat) but for me Fedora/KDE was
just as good as any other distribution I ever used.

To wrap things up, if you want the best of KDE/Fedora, look no further
then kde-redhat[1]. This project is committed to bring the best KDE
experience to Fedora/RHEL.

As for the future, KDE/core and KDE-RedHat are slowly being merged into
a single entity in -extra that should improve the KDE support in Fedora.

- Gilboa
[1] http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/