I "like" Mandriva's attitude (Fwd: Re: well-known user folders, a proposal)

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday 22 February 2007 22:39, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Kevin Krammer wrote:
> >I was just angry that Mandriva again(!) managed to patch KDE before
> > using the already present customization option.
>
> I am using an unpatched KDE on a Mandriva system and those options show up
> just fine in kfile.
>
> Yes, my first login on my computer was using a Mandriva-provided KDE.
> That's probably how the directories on $HOME were created and how kfile
> got the configuration in the first place. But now that the config is
> there, the unpatched KDE works just fine.

Excellent, maybe they found out how to do it properly (i.e. without patching) 
and the developer posting on fd.o just didn't notice.

It's a bit sad that often the distributors which help KDE a lot (e.g. employ 
KDE contributors) tend to have the worst KDE packages.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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