Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com> writes:
On Friday 31 July 2009 15:23:17 Lubos Lunak wrote:
[...] It could. I have already heard from people how SUSE used to be a great KDE distro and then Novell pushed GNOME and whatever and they went elsewhere. And SUSE used to be an outstanding KDE distribution and I think it still is, it's just that we ourselves (=SUSE) don't seem to point that out recently.
But openSUSE is also a great GNOME distribution - how can we point out properly that openSUSE has both?
We could make down-sized screenshots as buttons to choose from, side by side --- or a mosaic of several of them. That would make it simpler for users to decide. In an installed system these screenshots could also provide a link to the project home page, so you can make a better informed decision if you want to change things. Btw I think small screenshots and a link to the project home page would be a way cool thing in a package manager anyway, but that's another story. If we go down such a route, openSUSE as a distribution becomes a platform for all major desktops. The supporters of each desktop elect a representative screenshot by a specific date (e.g. beta4). That's what goes in. And then the users 'vote'. Btw, do we gather information on what's actually been used? One of the numbers in Michaels post was a 2:1 split KDE:GNOME in 11.1. That means to make 2/3 of the users a tad happyer, we make 1/3 of the users feel second class. I doubt setting a default will really help to grow the openSUSE user base or Linux growth in general. I'd focus on making decisions simpler. S. -- Susanne Oberhauser +49-911-74053-574 SUSE -- a Novell Business OPS Engineering Maxfeldstraße 5 Processes and Infrastructure Nürnberg SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org