On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden at gmail.com > wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 20:41, Kevin Kofler<kevin.kofler at chello.at> > wrote: > >> I again reiterate: have you tested this on a vanilla installation of > KDE? > >> Don't assume its an upstream bug until you have verified it by getting > the > >> upstream sources and testing it. > > > > this is an upstream bug and needs to be reported > > and fixed upstream! > > Although I agree that most bugs in KDE are upstream bugs and not > distro-specific, in my recent experience what I have seen is that KDE > is dismissing the bugs saying that the bug does not exist in KDE 4 and > that users should upgrade, which is obviously not an option for users > of CentOS 4 or 5 (or RHEL for that matter). > > I support an environment with about 25 users of CentOS (4) desktops, > most of them used KDE and KMail (for historical reasons), but recently > when they start bumping at those bugs I don't even bother and > recommend that they move to GNOME and Thunderbird instead, which are > much better supported, both in CentOS/RHEL, and in their own projects. > > Some might consider KDE superior, but as long as they will refuse to > support KDE 3, they are dead to me... Upstream has always used GNOME as the default. I switched to Thunderbird and I won't look back to Evolution or anything else. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090624/66eaabbd/attachment-0005.html>