[GLLUG] Redhat 8.0 + holy war.

[Sean]

This is how I see it. 

RedHat is under the gun to produce a Desktop User Friendly version of 
Linux. You can't do that if the applications don't have the same look/feel 
to them. 

RedHat gave KDE and Gnome two years to reach some sort of compromise. It 
didn't happen. Redhat made a decision for them. Someone had to do it.
I think RH was waiting to see what KDE 3 was actually going to ship before 
making this decision. 

I don't think the changes were all that great. So far i have heard, a few 
directory structure changes, the axing of a redundent and useless "About 
KDE" menu item in each applicaton, and not having the KDE apps as native 
when you are in KDE. 

To me this is all so trivial, granted it breaks a few applications now.  
If they would have left it it would have been a LOT harder to fix later if 
they get mainstream appeal. They had to do it at a major revision change, 
so you know this is for RH 8. It is the same thing they did with libs and 
compilers and everything else too.

Sean