[ydl-gen] Question on YDL.net

[Kai Staats]

Derick,

> There's a chance that with time, effort in learning and sufficient
> experience, we'll come to understand.  Meanwhile we do what we can with
> whatever we understand to do.

This would make a somewhat confusing fortune cookie insert :)


> > If you use KDE at all, you will quickly be impressed by the promise
> > but frustrated by all the things that aren't quite there. It basically
> > means that if you depend on KDE, you'll want the latest KDE. I'd call
> > it mission critical.
> >
> > Fedora came with KDE 3.5.2, and an active community of volunteers
> > provides extremely timely yum feeds of stable and testing KDE rpms,
> > plus a helpful support list. This is free, of course.
> >
> > Meanwhile, I have this old KDE on my beloved PB which I cannot
> > reliably use. It seems I can get an update to KDE 3.4.2 from 3.3.2
> > only by extreme pain in trashing 4.0 and going through that multiple
> > boot business and then resetting all the preferences, last time taking
> > two days - well you know the drill. And then I am stuck at 3.4.2
> > again.

With the transition to a clean FC5 foundation, YDL v5.0 will provide more 
timely updates. I do apologize for v4.1 being somewhat stuck at an older 
version of KDE.


> > But I see that it will rankle the bejees out of me to be running a
> > constantly updated Fedora on the new MacBookPro (via parallels) and an
> > out of date KDE on the older PB.
>
> You do know about tar, downloading and recompiling all sorts of stuff
> by now so why stick with the old stuff, if your skills allow you to be
> and remain current.

While it is not goal to provide every single (ie: daily) update, we should be 
providing quarterly updates available via yum/Up2Date.


> It appears to me, that setting Gnome as your preferred desktop could be
> an answer for you.  Even using Gnome within YDL 4.0 is so much better
> than KDE.  And even though both KDE and Gnome are improved in YDL 4.1;
> I remain believing that Gnome remains better than KDE still.  All the
> programs which work under KDE remain available in Gnome.
> Try it out, I'm sure you'll feel better.

The desktop thing is quite personal. Asking someone to switch can be the same 
as asking someone to drive a Ford instead of a VW. Both have 4 wheels, a dash 
board, and a gas and brake pedal, but they are different (neither better or 
worse) experiences. Some love Ford. Some love VW.

kai