On 8/26/2009 at 03:54 AM, Administrator
wrote: I don;t think there's anything in this decision which says that one or the other DE is "more important" - the default is to do with convenience during install, not importance.
If this were truly the reason for the change then I believe that the community would have been more open to other ways of addressing this. It is obvious by the reactions and the tensions that this has caused that this decision was made for more than just that reason. I hear more people complaining about this decision then I ever hear anyone complain about not having a default desktop selected and I supported the desktop for 5 years. In fact, in that time I can remember one person that told me we should have a default desktop. Even then he didn't express a preference. Other than that what I usually received (and this was only a handful of times) was a question about what desktop to use. I loved being able to tell the customer that it didn't matter. That we supported both equally and that there were benefits and strengths in both. So I am sorry but with my years of experience in supporting the desktop I don't see how this is possibly resolving this issue. Let me just ask one thing. If we were talking about having GNOME be the default as a resolution to this issue, would the KDE supporters be taking the same stance? I don't think that they would. I think the argument to keep it as not selected and provide the customer with a better option to make a choice. Don't get me wrong. I am not saying make GNOME the default selection either. I am just saying, try and put yourself in their shoes and see if you really feel the same way if the decision was reversed. I think this is just causing more issues than it is "supposed" to be trying to resolve. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org