Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3100 mails)

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > 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.