On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 22:29 -0500, Mark H. Harris wrote:
On Wednesday 03 May 2006 21:43, kai wrote:
I can very easily see the tide slowly turning from one of emphatic support of KDE to that of simple maintenance.
I am amazed at some of the comments on this thread. Ok, basics... Linux is not Winblows... the desktop is *not* tied to the OS in Linux... the desktop is *not* tied to the distribution in Linux... Suse doesn't support the KDE desktop, the KDE community supports the KDE desktop... If Suse ever ships without KDE (and it won't anytime soon) I will add the KDE desktop myself.
Could it be that the problem here is that these days an increasing percentage of Linux users are unable to do this sort of thing ? If they are converts from the Windblows world are they dependent on the features/facilities/packages provided "out of the box" and thus inexperienced in building things from sources ? I wonder how many of the contributors to this thread have ever built KDE or GNOME from the sources ? I have not had to build GNOME from source for a couple of years now. Peter