Rethinking https://www.kde.org/download/distributions.php

R33D3M33R andrejm at ubuntu.si
Tue Jun 30 11:31:38 UTC 2015


Dne 30. 06. 2015 ob 13:10 je Ben Cooksley zapisal(a):
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>> That page has a problem:
> Hi Albert,
>
>>   * It lists kdelibs when it should list Plasma 5, KDE Frameworks and KDE
>> Applications versions
>>
>> The problem is that knowing that for each distro is A LOT OF WORK, previously
>> we could piggy-back on DistroWatch to read kdelibs code but DistroWatch is not
>> having the 3 versions for the three things we need.
>>
>> One possibility is just killing the page.
>>
>> Anyone remembers what was the original rationale for having that list?
> Was probably so people could find a distro with KDE, back in the day.
> These days so many distros carry our software that i'm not sure it has
> any worth anymore.
>
> I'd be in favour of killing it, pointing people to a list of
> distributions which carry KDE software (not stating versions) on the
> wiki (so people / packagers / distributors can self-maintain it).
>
>> Cheers,
>>    Albert
> Thanks,
> Ben
Hello,

I think this page should list only popular distributions which ship with 
Plasma Desktop as default DE. This way new users could get their hands 
on most polished KDE experience and the list would be shorter and easier 
to maintain.

Cheers,
Andrej


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