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Feature changed by: Jos Poortvliet (jospoortvliet)
Feature #312959, revision 5
  Title: Make the best working desktop default
   
  openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed
  Priority
      Requester: Important
   
  Requested by: Stefan Seyfried (seife)
  Partner organization: openSUSE.org
   
Description:
  For every distribution, make the best working desktop default. Right
  now, KDE is default even though it is obviously broken. Let's decide
  for each release, which desktop is the best working and give that one
  the honor of being the default. Which metrics to apply to decide which
  desktop is good working and which one is not is open to debate, we
  could go for things like "open bug count" for example. Maybe we should
  limit the selection to "general purpose desktops" and leave out the
  more esoteric ones like awesome, larswm and such, but decide at least
  among * KDE * GNOME * LXDE * XFCE
  Which are all full featured desktops ready for end users.
   
  Business case (Partner benefit):
  openSUSE.org: An actually working desktop
   
+ Discussion:
+ #1: Jos Poortvliet (jospoortvliet) (2011-11-12 17:05:23) 
+ We could indeed settle on LXDE as default desktop (I'm fairly sure the
+ lowest common denominator in terms of features offers the least bugs)
+ but I'm not sure if that'll make many users happy.
+ Surely each desktop has its issues but for new users GNOME and KDE both
+ do a reasonable job despite their greater number of bugs and
+ inconveniences compared to XFCE and LXDE.
   
   
   

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openSUSE Feature: 
https://features.opensuse.org/312959