On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:23:43PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
Lukey wrote:
Hi Jonathan,
Was nice to meet yourself, Brett, Peter and Jurgen the other evening. I had a good time and was prompted to try out ubuntu - splendid distro, excellent hardware detection & setup, great in everyway - as long as you like GNOME !!!
It is very GNOME-centric and I've been spoilt by kde a bit. Call me shallow if you want.
Look forward to our next meeting - hope more of you can make it next time, Luke.
Welcome to the group Luke. I suspect Ubuntu, being debian based, has problems with the QT licence (KDE is written using the QT widget set). There is no reason why you cannot download a kde binary, in deb, rpm or tgz format, and install kde.
Erm, sorry, I think you are very mistaken ;)
KDE and family are now under dual licences, the TrollTech licence and the GPL, there are packages for KDE in debian (certainly testing and unstable, I can't remember if they made it in to woody before that was released, I could check, but that's far too much like hard work).
The reason it is not in ubuntu is because ubuntu is more of a specialised distribution, with the desktop components carefully selected and supported by the ubuntu guys (who are very good at thier jobs). I wouldn't be suprised if KDE was available in the universe packages of ubuntu, but I haven't checked (mainly because I'm not running ubuntu on any of my boxes as of yet). universe, however, is not supported by the ubuntu guys, and so their crack security team do not, necessarily, deal with any issues that may arise in the packages available there.
Thanks,