Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

[Leendert Meyer <leen.meyer@xxxxxxx>]

2006-05-17 19:23
   
On Thursday 11 May 2006 23:53, Kevanf1 wrote:
> I mentioned an interview with one of the marketing guys from
> SuSE/Novell recently.  This was in conjunction with ongoing debate
> about whether SuSE/Novell are dropping Gnome or not.
>
> Well, read the article yourselves now and make your own minds up.  See
> if you conclude the same as I did and think that KDE will be dropped
> at some point.
>
> http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/
>
> The article is on the front page.  You may have to scroll down a
> little but it's in the center column.

"Gnome will be the default desktop. But we will continue to ship and support 
KDE, for a number of reasons."

I did not read, nor did I "smell" that KDE will be dropped at some point. But 
from Ubuntu sprang KUbuntu, and I believe that, /if/ KDE where dropped, KSuse 
would not be far away (perhaps with a different name).

But to me it seems far more likely that Novell/SUSE would prefer to prevent a 
fork, and will therefore keep supporting KDE.

The installation process of 10.1 offered a choice of desktop: KDE, GNOME, or 
another. I liked that, and I hope SUSE continues to do that with successive 
versions.

Cheers,

Leen