Am Montag, 8. Mai 2023, 16:52:30 CEST schrieb Richard Brown:
I don't know if there are any stats on Gnome vs KDE usage with TW, but I would be surprised if the number of KDE users was small.
The number of users doesn't matter. It's the number of contributors that is relevant here. As long as it's greater than 0 I'd say that there's an argument to continue offering MicroOS Desktop with KDE, but as it's been effectively zero for over a month now we need to start considering its removal.
The number of users does not matter? But the number of contributors does? Strange way of looking at things. I think the user comes first. And all others have to follow him. If you remove KDE, then in my opinion the project is dead for most users and they will use another distro, myself included.
Possible the lack of volunteers is because of a lack of interest in using MicroOS and its transactional-update process ? I don't know if any MicroOS stats exist so I'm just speculating.....
It's possible. I don't judge. The GNOME variant of the MicroOS Desktop has lots of contributors and lots of users. That's great as it's my daily driver. The absence of a KDE flavour isn't going to hurt the goals the MicroOS Desktop set out to achieve.
Again. You should not only look after yourselves. Evaluate how many users of openSUSE used KDE and how many used Gnome or other interfaces. Then you can decide what is important and what should be pursued further. But not as long as you stay in your own bubble.
To overly simplify, it's aiming to be a highly polished, less customisable, less maintenance needed Linux Desktop, for lazy developers (like myself) and other folk like Grandparents and such who just don't care about the nuts and bolts the same way that some Linux Enthusiasts do.
So my grandparents has been using Leap for about 10 years now without any problems. No idea for what she should then need MicroOS and what should be better.
Based on the effective resignation letter of the last MicroOS Desktop KDE maintainer [3], I think it might be a perfectly reasonable conclusion to say that KDE just doesn't fit those goals, and it might not be in everyones interest to keep trying to smash that square peg into the MicroOS Desktop round hole.
well. But maybe MicroOS will no longer suit the users. And the other day I read a post that KDE wants to shorten the release cycles and wants to sit down with opneSUSE Leap, among others. But if KDE falls away, so then also quite a few users, the request of KDE is also invalid. Strange strategy the whole.
And that might be precisely why no ones stepping up to volunteer. Nothing wrong with that, not every idea needs to succeed :)
I don't think that is the reason. More like snootiness when asked or statements like "the user is unimportant" and then of course the marketing and HR department. Now you can stone me again. Regards Eric