RE: What is the official/semi-official positon of Fedora on KDE?

From: Claude Jones (claude_jones_at_levitjames.com)
Date: 04/09/05

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Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 16:13:54 -0400

    Pete wrote:
    | I am using kde-3.4. I cannot say that there are any
    | huge differences or apparent improvements, from a
    | user's perspective. They have integrated amarok into
    | the konqueror sidebar, for one (not that I ever use
    | that - better just to open amarok and have a clean
    | display when I want to listen to music, and have
    | konqueror free to do other things). I imagine it must
    | be primarily a bug-fix issue, but there weren't any
    | bugs I had come across, that I recall.
    |
    | The huge gains (laud! laud!) came when I switched from
    | the standard fedora kde to the kde-redhat project
    | version of 3.4. Wow! For the first time since the ol'
    | redhat daze, the system works like it's supposed to.
    | Click on a file and there's music, instead of noatun
    | hanging up and kaboodle jamming. There's video, so you
    | can watch mpg movies and rent dvds and not have to use
    | windows. What's an option to windows worth if you
    | can't use it for all your needs? I don't need windows
    | and don't use it at all, but only because everything
    | works in Linux. There are lots of little things like
    | this - I can't remember them all - everything just
    | works, all of it! I can't say it enough. It's so good,
    | for the first time in years, I'm tempted not to
    | upgrade to FC4 (yes, I know I'm dreaming, of course I
    | will upgrade, and on the first day possible, but not
    | until kde-redhat is ready).
    |

    I found the kde-redhat page and the clear instrux on how to
    install it using yum. I'm doing it now. I am primarily a tv
    producer in my main occupation, so I'm very interested in seeing
    all the features you describe.

    Claude Jones
    Levit & James, Inc./WTVS
    Leesburg, VA, USA 

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