Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (349 mails)

[Sebastian Kügler <sebas@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 04 August 2010 15:31:26 Administrator wrote:
> > We have to ask ourselves here if these "desktop wars" you talk of is
> > something
> > that should keep defining what openSUSE is and how it works now and in
> > the future, or if this whole discussion is about given direction to
> > openSUSE and
> > thus making it a successful operating system. Now my answer might differ
> > from
> > yours in this, but as far as I understand, people very much agree that
> > the status quo is not satisfying, and that the root problem is the lack
> > of focus
> > and direction in openSUSE.
>
> <snip>
>
> > Besides that, when seeing how much energy is poured into delivering
> > different
> > UIs on the same system, it simply makes me cry. And it makes me wonder
> > how much longer this is sustainable. It might come as a surprise, but
> > it's completely braindead to support two (or more) full UI stacks, with
> > different
> > applications, desktop interfaces and all that. It's in my not so humble
> > opinion one of the major weak points of most Linux-based Operating
> > Systems out there.
>
> My take is a bit different: it's evolution in progress.  We get the best UI
> by having multiple (more than 2) UIs competing with each other.  Some die
> out because they aren't up to the standard of the others.  Some get
> stronger by "borrowing" good ideas from the others.  With a bit of
> wastefulness (evolution is very wasteful) we all get a better UI to use,
> and a constantly evolving and developing UI.
>
> So I say encourage the competition between KDE & Gnome as we all benefit.

This competition you talk about only tangents openSUSE. The borrowing of good 
ideas is an upstream thing (and a good one, fully agree!), down the road it 
becomes wasteful without the benefits.
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sebas

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