On Saturday 11 March 2006 04:17 am, Mike wrote:
On Saturday 11 March 2006 06:35, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 10/03/06 06:53, Sven Burmeister wrote:
<snip> So the question remains, if Gnome is not default, or the only desktop for those two products, why are there no screenshots of KDE around? The "slidshow" on Novell's website for NLD 9 only shows Gnome and its apps.
So what?
SUSE has historically been a KDE distro, and from what I've read a fairly large majority of SUSE customers prefer KDE. In the last couple of years, Novell has put far more effort into the Gnome environment. This makes many people unhappy, as there are many valid reasons (perhaps not for you) why Gnome is a poor substitute for KDE. I myself have bought every SUSE box since 7.3 for use at work and home, but starting now I will just download OpenSUSE.
I can imagine that sentiment goes with many. I - for one - thoroughly agree that KDE is the superior option. In addition, I cannot overcome the idea that the Gnome group doesn't follow the open source model, nearly as well as Qt does.
If you don't see the elimination of KDE from the Novell marketing and technology investment as a change worthy of discussion, well..."so what".
Agreed! I think it is a huge issue that should be discussed. If - as I suspect - Novell decides to make a permanant change to the sup-par Gnome platform and the less-than-stellar GTK+ toolkit, which - as I just mentioned -doesn't follow the GPL, then we should make our voices heard loud and clear. SuSE/SUSE the best distribution I've run across with a very good set of tools and options for anyone from a power user to a newbie like me. I would hate to see it spiral down into a Gnome-centric black hole. -- kai - www.perfectreign.com www.livebeans.com - the new NetBeans community 43...for those who require slightly more than the answer to life, the universe and everything.