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. Suse (Novel) is an elegant packaged distribution. If it ever stops being an elegant packaged distribution (Do I hear Oracle/Ellis coming?) then someone else will come along and represent the linux OS community with a new elegant packaged distribution. In the mean time, any packaged distribution is like Legos... infinitely configurable... you don't like it---then change it. It isn't complete---then add to it. I have used Gnome & KDE for several years... I prefer KDE, but I like being able to switch between them... and sometimes I even use twm (tiny window manager) with no desktop at all! Use TCL/TK for the gui, Use C for the guts, use Java for nothing. -- Kind regards, Mark H. Harris <>< harrismh777@earthlink.net