On Tuesday 22 May 2007, BandiPat said: > Actually, I think you'll find that SuSE's KDE has been "touched" quite a > bit by the SuSE developers. There are lots of differences, some > noticeable, others not so, but several changes. Just take a look at > another distro using KDE that uses the standard packages from kde.org > and you should immediately see some differences. Also, take a look at > SuSE's src.rpms to see what patches, etc. they do.
Lee is right - we patch the kde.org tarballs extensively. SUSE does after all have more KDE developers than any other distro, AFAIK, and it would be a shame for us to have to play frozen-bubble all day. Some reasons for these changes are: *) adding changes from SVN branch since the kde.org release *) making our bugfixes available before the next kde.org release *) adding our features from before next kde.org release *) adding our branding *) adding features that aren't accepted upstream yet due to feature freezes, eg. the Kickoff menu, Beagle integration, or Novell GroupWise support *) making distro dependent integration changes that are out of the KDE project's scope, e.g desktop startup time fixes or improving Gnome app help support in khelpcenter Most of these changes are below the waterline and just make for a better user experience. Stephan Binner used to keep tabs on all the distro patches with a list at http://ktown.kde.org/~binner/distributor-patches but it is somewhat out of date - we had to shut him up somehow ;). I count 172 patches vs today's kdelibs3 and kdebase3 3.5.7 packages. > You can install the kde.org files without expecting problems, but your > best bet would be to continue with the SuSE builds, if you are > satisfied with their changes and additions. Usually SuSE is pretty > good at keeping abreast of the latest versions, Can you think of any exceptions? :) > but again, if you > prefer to stay on the edge, KDE from kde.org won't kill ya! Too much > that is. ;-) I'd contend that just due to the bug fixes and branch changes, SUSE rpms are more current than the kde.org tarballs. Except maybe on days like yesterday [ http://dot.kde.org/1179831426/ ]. I hope that's of interest to you, Will -- Desktop Engineer 'K' Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
