Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (673 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Why not put KDE4 on a separate CD as an *addition* to the DVD? The 11.1
> installation process could be modified to check to see which Desktop
> system a user wants installed and if KDE4 is selected then KDE4 files
> will be installed after the rest of the main system is installed.
>
> Alternatively, since very few people use Gnome, put Gnome on the CD and
> have the *full* KDE3 with (crippled) KDE4 on the DVD.
>
> KDE4 is at the centre of this whole debate so *it* should be *"reduced"*
> and *NOT* KDE3 which is fully functional and stable.

Every media is work to do - and might confuse users.

Yes, we could have the following DVD medias:
* non-X11 media
* GNOME only desktop
* KDE3 only desktop
* KDE4 only desktop
* XFCE only desktop
* Server system with GNOME
* Server system with KDE3
* ...

The work we're doing in the build service will enable everybody to build
their own media if anybody is interested.

Btw. it's not true that very few people use GNOME - and KDE4 is
something others like to have.  

As Michael mentioned we have a significant number of KDE4 users as well,

Andreas
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