Administrator wrote:
it was precisely because of this perception of 'ill-use' that i argued time and again last month that a decision on a default desktop should only be taken IF the relevant experts within opensuse decided that a default desktop would provide a net benefit to the distribution via increased adoption, and in particular increased adoption by new users.
We can't avoid the issue by not talking about it, which is what this proposal is - if we don't talk about defaults then we don't need to talk about the tensions / insecurities between the KDE & Gnome camps in openSuSE. The issue needs to be aired and resolved.
As far as I understand, the Gnome camp fear that Gnome will become a minor player in openSuSE, and the KDE camp fear that KDE will become a minor player in the SuSE Enterprise.
There have been statements that contradict these fears, but these have been discounted or ignored. What would allay the fears?
David
I don't disagree with anything you say. My take was that the perception of 'ill-use' among the Gnome crowd arose from the idea that a noisy element within the KDE crowd were using their majority as an excuse to force Gnome into a second class status within opensuse. Thus i argued time and again last month that a decision on a default desktop should only be taken IF the relevant experts within opensuse decided that a default desktop would provide a net benefit to the distribution via increased adoption, and in particular increased adoption by new users. I also stated that i did not have the expertise to judge whether a default desktop would provide a net benefit, and was thus happy to leave THAT decision in the hands of said opensuse experts. To reiterate; I as a KDE user, advocated choosing a default desktop only if the relevant opensuse decision makers decided that having a default desktop would be a positive step (read: net benefit) for the distribution. IF the opensuse decision makers concluded that a default desktop pre-selection was in the distributions best interest, only then did i advocate choosing KDE for that default on the basis that it is the most popular DE among the opensuse community. To conclude; I did my best to argue a non-partisan position, and i did so publicly on the mailing list to alleviate the perception of 'ill-use' by the Gnome crowd. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org