Does YDL use unreleased/buggy redhat-versions of KDE and XFree86?

[Matthias Saou]

Markus Deistler <msdeistler@freenet.de> wrote :

> They also heavily changed the installation scheme. Therefore I run into
> some difficulties when I upgraded from YDL-plain-vanilla-KDE 3.0.1 to
> RH-KDE-3.1 by just doing a 'rpm -i' ...
> It's not just another theme.
> 
> And I was just lucky with gcc-2.95.4, gcc-3.2.2 just doesn't compile the
> kdebase-package, for example. 
> 
> So I don't believe everything is mis-information here. Maybe biased or
> exaggerated, but there seems to be truth in it.

The impression I got from speaking to a few Red Hat folks at the FOSDEM a
month ago, was that yes, they screwed up KDE, but it really wasn't
intentional, and probably more due to the lack of people using KDE within
Red Hat Inc. now that Bero left than to any evil secret plan of theirs.

One good example was that some menus were broken in KDE, because some
desktop files were renamed, and in KDE the name of the file is apparently
something more or less hardcoded to a fixed mandatory value for some
programs (from what I've understood)...

Anyway, Red Hat has never focused on KDE for various reasons, and they're
probably not going to start anytime soon. But having a KDE developer inside
Red Hat was a good thing, and is probably the reason why Red Hat Linux's
KDE packages got "messy" once he left. I also understand him if he left
because of the lack of support to KDE from within his own company... it's a
vicious circle :-/

Nevertheless, I'm quite optimistic as to putting an end toall these
problems: With the freedesktop.org effort, unification between both GNOME
and KDE desktops is happening at last. The first good examples being the
new desktop files shared between both, and the window manager extensions
which are now common too (you should be currently able to replace kwm with
metacity and vice-versa).

Matthias

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