On 19 July 2015 at 12:43, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Basil Chupin [07-19-15 03:10]:

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Perhaps this question could be best asked in openSUSE Factory but I think that it is more relevant for this list.

I selected Gnome as the preferred desktop environment when I installed a trial copy of (the latest snapshot of) Tumbleweed (TW) a couple of days ago. I did this because the KDE desktop which I have always used over the years has been replace by an abomination called Plasma5 and I wanted to see what Gnome now looks like.

My question is: will GNOME continue to be as sensible in its configuration and presentation as I now see it (at least in TW I installed) or will it be totally replaced by Plasma5 in openSUSE 42.x which is being planned for release sometime this coming November?

Basil, GNOME will be in openSUSE Leap 42.x, along with several other desktops, as usual, this is after all openSUSE. I'm noticing from this post and others in other lists, you seem to be asking lots of questions that display a deep misunderstanding of how the open source development model works. GNOME, like KDE, is developed by many people, who are associated with many different projects, who collectively work together in order to develop various suites of software like GNOME and KDE These collections of software are than packaged and distributed as part of Linux distributions, such as openSUSE Tumbleweed or Leap Coming to the opensuse-gnome mailing list and asking questions like "will GNOME continue to be....." demonstrates a gross misunderstanding of this, and suggests that you think that openSUSE and openSUSE alone defines the direction of Projects like KDE and GNOME This is not true We are involved in these projects, along with many other people, and we influence, assist, and contribute, but I, nor anyone else here, can provide any guarantees how new versions of GNOME or KDE will look a few years from now. If this is not a satisfactory answer for you, I suggest you spend time considering proprietary operating systems like OS X or Windows, though I hear you have to pay Apple or Microsoft significant amounts of money before they'll listen to your feedback. Regards, Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner@opensuse.org