KDE File Chooser in GTK apps on Kubuntu

[Derek Broughton]

Gordon Schulz wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:06, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> > Is it really a distribution issue? So OpenSuSE should have their own
>> > set
>> > of patches against  Firefox and Ooo as should Mandriva, Kubuntu and all
>> > the other KDE-centric distributions?
>> 
>> Right, just like every distro has their own installer, and package
>> management, and bugtrackers, etc. The distro is the glue holding the
>> packages together. Whatever affects the integration of the upstream
>> packages is the responsibility of the distro.
> Well, one could argue a lot here, depends on point of view I guess. For
> me packages are just what they are - upstream applications that are
> bundled together to fit the distribution's layout and package
> management. On a side note - despite loving Debian that's what I don't
> like, their habit of patching too much on their own ignoring upstream.

I wouldn't say they ignore upstream at all.  *ubuntu is a good example. 
Each Ubuntu release begins with Debian Sid.  The Ubuntu developers try hard
to push all _their_ patches onto Debian, or even further upstream, then
they won't have to maintain them, but for various reasons not all changes
are accepted upstream.  So then the Ubuntu devs have to decide whether it's
worth maintaining a separate patch, or just dropping it.  If it was popular
with the user base, they really don't have a lot of choice - they have to
keep it, and if possible improve it enough to make upstream want it.
-- 
derek