Looking forward to Fedora 7 [LWN.net]

Looking forward to Fedora 7

Posted Jan 12, 2007 1:22 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (guest, #4458)
In reply to: Looking forward to Fedora 7 by ewan
Parent article: Looking forward to Fedora 7

You know, making KDE a "first class citizen" in Fedora-land is in your hands: Get in touch with the people working towards "Fedora KDE", and chip in.

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Looking forward to Fedora 7

Posted Jan 12, 2007 8:35 UTC (Fri) by pointwood (guest, #2814) [Link]

I don't use Fedora, so I don't see why I should start working on making KDE better there?

Yes, I'm fully aware that the people doing this is doing it for free and if I want something, I should just make it happen myself, but I'm a bit tired of that comment because that is just not an option in many cases.
I do regularly donate to various projects to support the developers, but that's not my point. The problem is that when people get that comment thrown in their face everytime they comment on a piece of open source software, they get tired of it too and the result is that they get a bad experience with open source software.

Looking forward to Fedora 7

Posted Jan 13, 2007 13:28 UTC (Sat) by tlw (guest, #31237) [Link]

> You know, making KDE a "first class citizen" in
> Fedora-land is in your hands

Agreed, and very well said.

As it turns out my window environment of choice happens to be fvwm2, which RedHat/Fedora stopped providing RPMs for many releases ago. Did that make me stop using RedHat/Fedora and seek out another distro that provided it for me? Or did it make me whine in public? No. Getting fvwm2 is a simple matter of downloading, configuring, compiling, and installing the program from source. What's that?... 4 steps instead of 1?

Honestly I can't believe how some people have become so helpless. If someone doesn't provide an icon to click on, it doesn't get done. When I hear people complaining about this it almost makes me think there are no free compilers available anymore.

Maybe in the 1990's or early 2000's compiling source code was a bit of an art and almost required someone to be a developer to get it to work... but nowadays? And especially something like fvwm2 (or KDE for that matter).

Ahh... the good ol' days... when compiling from source was considered fun and almost a requirement... :-)