On Sunday 02 August 2009 20:44:13 Jim Henderson wrote:
On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:51:24 +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote:
Actually, I take this back, as I think I completely misinterpreted feature #306967 here. After careful reading again and thinking about it, I see it now like this:
- the only request there is "make KDE the default desktop". It is nowhere asked that openSUSE focuses primarily on KDE or that GNOME is neglected. In fact, it explicitly states that GNOME should remain supported as a choice.
- this can be achieved by preselecting the KDE radiobutton during installation and nothing more
- everything else in the feature is a description of benefits of doing so (and only doing so, without expressing any explicit focus on KDE or anything similar)
Setting the radiobutton to pre-select KDE does specify a preference of the project.
How about instead incorporating a suggestion made elsewhere in the discussion:
- Change the radiobuttons to checkboxes - Pre-select *both* KDE and GNOME
This option would put both on equal footing and shouldn't alienate anyone - additionally, it overrides the perception that because GNOME is listed first there's some sort of special preference (personally I've never seen it that way but understand why some people think that an alphabetical sort does provide a preference - unfortunately something always has to come first).
You just postpone the decision, this will not help: Then we would continue to discuss whether GDM or KDM is started by default, whether a new user that does no changes gets a GNOME or KDE desktop etc... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126