Le Monday 03 February 2003 15:39, Jason Straight a �crit : > Now that I feel mandrake has done the politically correct thing by not > taking away our choice, I'd like to know more about mdkkdm and what it's > plans are? > > One suggestion, move it to another name so it can be installed alongside > kdebase-kdm, so those of us who want to help can flip back and forth as we > play ;) > > I take it due to it's initial replacement of kdm that it's supposed to be a > 100% compatible drop in for kdm, is it meant to have perfect function match > eventually? I mean will all features in the kcontrol panel eventually > reflect settings to mdkkdm?
mdkkdm use kcontrol->kdm configuration file. > What is the whole reason behind mdkkdm? Just branding or is there some goal > to new added functionality that's being worked on? There is not new feature. > In the past I've seen mdk changes that were not liked at first, I remember > some rpmdrake things that really pissed people off, but mdk came through > with a very nice rpmdrake. I trust that will happen with mdkkdm as well, > but I'm glad the choice isn't taken away from us now to use what we want to > use. > I think kde's kdm is really nice, couldn't the kdm that's already there > just have some branding added to it by mdk without redoing the layout and > functions? New kdm is a just a redesign of kdm. Regards. >I still think it should be a separate package however even in > that case.
