Posted Jan 18, 2013 5:57 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: stopping my escape? by jospoortvliet
Parent article: Fedora 18 released
Fedora release announcements are already large and don't have the space to go into details about the changes in the desktop environment. There is a very short blurb and that's the same for GNOME, KDE etc. If you want more info, release notes have them. If we include all the info in the announcement, it will just be a wall of text. How would that be really more preferable?
Posted Jan 19, 2013 21:56 UTC (Sat) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164)
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Well, in three sentences you can do more - I'm not saying to add more text, just think it could be more efficient. The GNOME one, while being only 2 lines, still manages to say something concrete. The KDE one is as vague as it gets, talking about 'improvements'. Compare:
KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.9: KDE Plasma Workspaces has been updated with many new features and
improved stability and performance, including updates to the Dolphin File Manager, Konsole, and
KWin Window manager.
with:
The update to version 4.9 of KDE's Workspaces and Applications brings many improvements including
metadata display and sorting to Dolphin, storing and printing of annotations in Okular and
encryption of Activities.
Note that I picked stuff at random.
I didn't mean to be complaining or blaming anyone or whatever - it's fine with me. Just trying to point out a possible improvement.
stopping my escape?
Posted Jan 19, 2013 22:11 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
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None of these are really Fedora specific changes or improvements contributed by Fedora which is the sort of thing that we tend to highlight in the release announcements but if we are talking about upstream changes, sure, we could rewrite the blurb to be better and ideally that sort of thing will come from contributions by the KDE team within Fedora.
stopping my escape?
Posted Jan 19, 2013 22:31 UTC (Sat) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164)
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Oh, I surely get the logic behind that - the team working on it should contribute such descriptions.