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