Anyone tried FC3-test1?

[Michael Hipp]

Tim Wunder wrote:
> http://kde-redhat.sf.net
> Their apt/yum repositories work fine with the main fedora repo's. Works
> quite well, although, I recommend against upgrading to KDE 3.3.0 just
> yet. But kde-redhat's KDE-3.2.3 was quite good. FWIW, I think it's hard
> to beat K3B as a GUI front end to cd recording tools (cdrecord and cdrdao).

I've used kde-redhat on several boxes for some time. Rex Dieter does a
fantastic job with it.

Agree on k3b. It's probably the best gui cd/dvd tool going. But it is
not part of a standard install of FC so I'm trying to do without it. And 
there is no integration with Gnome for it.

> And since when does FC2 mean having to run Gnome? As far as I recall,
> FC2 came with KDE. kde-redhat's implementation simply makes it easier to
> abandon bluecurve-isms, and you can keep up with the KDE updates easier.

Yes. But as the FAQ for kde-redhat says:

"Because RedHat does not make supporting KDE a priority ..."

Gnome is the standard on FC/RH. And that's what almost all of the help
and documentation centers around. There's no way I would send a newbie
to kde-redhat. As good as kde-redhat is, it is not without problems.
The menus often get tangled and similarly for themes and icons.

RH just doesn't put much effort into KDE and even their out-of-the box
implementation is kinda weird.

There are many things about KDE that much superior to Gnome in
useability but the one thing that just drives me batty about KDE is that
the dumb konqueror windows always open to the exact same size. No
matter how many times I resize konq when looking at my home directory,
it won't remember that I need it big to see all the files. Thus I have
fallen in love with the "spatial" mode of Gnome. That one thing alone is
worth dumping KDE for Gnome. If there's a setting somewhere for 
"remember size and placement" I wish somebody would point it out to me.

Thanks,
Michael