F8 update kills KDE
max bianco
maximilianbianco at gmail.com
Tue Apr 22 17:42:56 UTC 2008
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> max bianco <maximilianbianco <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > Now under the hood,KDE is KDE but from one distro to the next, it
> > seemed like they gave it its own feel. The default KDE implementation
> > that I used on F7 left alot to be desired, it looked to me like GNOME
> > with a KDE twist, it looked to me like GNOME with KDE spray-paint,
> > maybe that explains what I mean by knockoff.
>
> Uh, if there's anything we're "knocking off", it's upstream KDE, and your own
> first sentence also hints at that. Our KDE look&feel is very close to the
> upstream defaults, unlike some other distributions which heavily customize
> their KDE. There are times when it wasn't, but in those times, it looked a lot
> more like the "GNOME knockoff" you're painting it to be than it does now!
>
>
> > none of the others interest me anymore, Fedora is where I want to be,
> > but I couldn't use KDE on Fedora, it just didn't work for me. It
> > didn't feel right, I switched over to GNOME, it fit better and until I
> > started using Fedora I never even considered GNOME an option.
>
> Uh, if our KDE is a GNOME knockoff, then why does GNOME fit your needs and KDE
> doesn't? Sounds like they're actually different enough for you to prefer GNOME.
>
> Kevin Kofler
>
Well I have certainly stirred up the hornets nest. I am happy but not
surprised to see that everyone takes such pride in their work, this
just reinforces my decision to use Fedora. The reason that the other
KDE desktops I have seen appealed to me so much was just that reason
you stated above. They are different. GNOME is or was(i haven't fired
up another distro in quite a while) much the same look and feel in
Fedora as it was in SUSE. GNOME felt generic, i was naturally inclined
to dislike it for that very reason. The KDE I found on Fedora looked
more like GNOME than any other I have ever used. It is purely a matter
of opinion, so why take offense? OK, now I will concede the point
without further comment.
Max
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