Re: RH 6.0: Gnome and KDE Peaceful Coexistence or WishfullThinking?

["Marco Fonseca" <mfonseca yorku ca>]

No offense taken. And yes, I am a bit paranoid. As an end-user who's gone
through so many problems first trying to configure RH 5.2, then trying to
install and compile the original 1.0 release of Gnome (which was a terrible
release for RH 5.2 end-users, maybe good for programmers...), and then
finding that KDE 1.1 installed withoug a single hitch and worked perfectly
well from day one. Don't I have good reasons to be paranoid as an
end-user????

As for the RPM package tool... that's a good point. I should look more into
the problems with this tool, but I still think there is questions of
compatibility between Gnome and KDE that programmers might need to look
into. The quick and aprioristic rejections that these kinds of problems
might exist is very suspicious in and of itself. No offense.

Marco

----- Original Message -----
From: Havoc Pennington <rhp@zirx.pair.com>
To: Marco Fonseca <mfonseca@yorku.ca>
Cc: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: RH 6.0: Gnome and KDE Peaceful Coexistence or WishfullThinking?


>
> Hi,
>
> I think you're a bit paranoid (no offense intended) - those changes seem
> like either simple bugs, or changes unrelated to Gnome or KDE (for example
> the device changes; those are probably in some unrelated Red Hat package).
>
> If anything your gripe is with the RPM package tool, because it doesn't
> ask you to verify everything it installs/does - if it did, you'd probably
> have to answer about a thousand questions during an upgrade. However you
> feel about that, I don't think it's Gnome-KDE related.
>
> The KDE people also claim that that version of KDE is unstable, and that
> you should get 1.1.1 instead - but I don't know if any of the bugs you're
> seeing are part of that.
>
> Anyway, let's not make up imaginary conflicts to supplement the real ones.
>
> HTH,
> Havoc
>
>
>
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