Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3100 mails)

[Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister@xxxxxxx>]

Hi!

Am Sonntag, 12. März 2006 10:05 schrieb David Wright:
> I've been installing the 10.1 Beta's on a regular basis, and, like 10.0,
> there is no default desktop environment selected with SUSE Linux, you have
> to specify which one you want, KDE, Gnome, other or text console only...

I know, we were talking about the NLD which was renamed to SuSE Linux Desktop 
and has Gnome as default.

> If you look at the corporate desktop, Gnome seems to be the default
> standard many companies look to, and has been said, Novell have bought a
> company that does work under Gnome, so it was foreseeable that Gnome would
> come more to the foreground than before.

There was Redhat and mandrake as a fork with different DE as default. There 
was Slackware and Suse as a fork. So the fork was not "sold" with the name of 
the original. This is all I am talking about. Who would say that it would 
make sense to have Redhat which obviously has a focus on Gnome and then 
create Redhat Desktop Linux with a focus on KDE?

> From what has been said and what I have observed, it seems like both will
> be treated equally for the foreseeable future, as opposed to Gnome being
> the poor cousing. And as the enterprise customers often concentrate on
> Gnome, it makes some sense that some of the tools are moved to the gtk
> libraries...

Although setting one of the two as default is not treating them equally, I 
still do not see how it makes sense to use a name bound to KDE for a 
Gnome-defaulted fork, especially since it had already it's new name, i.e. 
Novell Linux Desktop. Apparently that name was not good enough to sell the 
product, why would one change a well selling product name.

Sven