Am 25.11.2013 17:23, schrieb Richard Brown:
Lets stick with your example of BlueZ
In the case of bluez5, its been over a year since upstream bluez moved to version 5 which is incompatible with version 4.
For whatever reason, KDE in 13.1 was not able to support BlueZ5
Well, it's not like bluez5 had been usable outside some specific embedded environments before bluez-5.6 or so. And GNOME did not have bluez5 support long before. I know because I regularly checked if *anybody* was using bluez5 already and if I could dare upating it for openSUSE and nobody did.
I think we made the right call. Any egg on the face of KDE or other projects that couldn't keep up with BlueZ changes will hopefully encourage them to do better next time - and it's improvements like that which ultimately benefit everyone the most.
for bluez that's probably correct, but breaking everything all the time just because we can and just because gnome is already able to use the latest stuff is not going to make people happy. They often would rather add their features and fix their own stuff instead of keeping up with the constant stream of breakage coming down from those upstream projects. Probably we'll need to start a desktop that keeps away from the freedesktop.org stuff ;-) -- Stefan Seyfried "If your lighter runs out of fluid or flint and stops making fire, and you can't be bothered to figure out about lighter fluid or flint, that is not Zippo's fault." -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org