where is the desktop-product that has KDE as default? Why must be there a different product for it? Well, either one thinks, KDE and Gnome are "equal", then there cannot be a default, or maybe a random one. Or you supply two products with different defaults.
This whole thread/conversation/topic is pointless.
If one thinks that one of them is better
Define "better"? ...... NLD is a Novell product, they are going to do research and make a decision. This has to happen. As a system administrator in a shop using both Open Source and proprietary solutions I can't begin to explain how e-x-h-a-u-s-t-i-n-g this kind of 'debate' (I use the term loosely) is. Companies want *PRODUCTS* not *PROJECTS*, companies don't give a &*@^*&@ about projects. Companies need defined solutions to problems, which is the point of all this technology in the first place. If you don't like product A then you go find and buy product B. You can use either GNOME or KDE, or several other, desktops on OpenSUSE (which is really more of a project then a product). A company isn't going to give it's users a desktop choice (not any SANE company at least) so why would a desktop PRODUCT need to include multiple desktops (even if NLD does)? If you don't like a desktop product you go and find another one.
, then it has to be set as default. How else would you decide to set the default? However, if one sets a default, one has to re-asses it with every release,
No way. One lives with ones decision, the purpose of a default is to provide some kind of order and consistency. Gee, why don't I switch between Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange every other weekend? I really like that is in *that* patch or update....
so one might have altering defaults, which is not really less confusing then having none. Is Novell going to re-asses the default on every release?
A sure way to sink the company.