Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (89 mails)

[Martin Schlander <suse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Den Tuesday 11 September 2007 13:40:53 skrev Michael Meeks:
> >> This raises an important usability issue... with a totally different
> >> software maintenance component between Gnome and KDE, there is a major
> >> impact to documentation, support and the development path.
>
>         Hokay, agreed - however this is basically true of all existing
> Gnome / KDE differences :-) how do I launch applications ? where is the
> menu ? how do I configure the networking ? change the screen size ? etc.
> So, agreed - but we're used to this problem in a lot of areas I think.

Absolutely agree with mmeeks.

There are definitely some costs. But there are also benefits - 
the "one-size-to-fit-them-all"-approach of our biggest competitor, is one of 
their weaknesses. Offering different solutions for different users is a 
strength in the long run - albeit more costly.

And come on, how difficult is it to adapt from one package manager to the 
other. Joe Sixpack will figure it out in seconds.. the basic concept for the 
basic tasks is the same for any package management gui on any distro.. 
search -> select/remove package -> accept..

Let's not try to squeeze everyone into the same box.
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