Re: KDE Questions and Approval ...

[Adam Shand <ashand@alaska.net>]

> The problem with this is that, if we were to embrace KDE now,
> we implicidly also say "Programming for Qt is good", and thus
> more people start programming for Qt. Then when GNOME/Berlin/WhatEver
> comes out, we cannot switch anymore.

Hmmm... not sure I buy that... but it's an interesting twist.
 
>   The goal of debian is _not_ to produce the best distribution.
>                         but
>   The goal of debian is to produce the best _free_ distribution.

This I didn't know and makes all the differnce.  If this is Debian's goal
then I agree, KDE is inappropriate.

> (Second Note: Someone else in this thread mentioned that KDE didn't
> have "debian menu support". Maybe this used to be true, but after

The menu support worked fine when I installed the latest package... other
stuff was a little screwy but menu support works great :-)

Thanks for the intelligent reply... it's much appreciated.

Adam.


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