On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Stephan Kleine
On Wednesday August 4 2010 18:08:38 Sankar P wrote:
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Martin Schlander
wrote: Onsdag den 4. august 2010 15:55:55 skrev Will Stephenson:
On Wednesday 04 August 2010 15:34:12 Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Also, I've heard last year that changing the installation
to make KDE the
default installed desktop would bring us so many KDE
developers that help
to polish the openSUSE KDE desktop. I'm not seeing
that many new faces
I'm not seeing any of the doomsday scenarios coming to life as predicted by the GNOME agitators in that debate either >:-)
That is probably because either your vision is clouded by KDE-love or because you are not seeing the right places. Compare the number of tweets/blogs on planetgnome for 11.3 release against say 11.1/11.2 . In my personal observation, the tweets (on openSUSE release etc.) by people (such as in mono project) have reduced to almost nil, ever since the default-desktop decision is made. IIRC the number of blog posts for 11.3 on p.g.o was not more than 2-3 posts whereas it was in the order of dozens for earlier releases. Some of the GNOME ambassadors in my part of the world who used to give openSUSE DVDs, switched to Ubuntu.
I'm sorry but if they switched the distro because of some checkbox ticked by default during installation then it is probably good riddance imho.
I don't use Gnome but I'm against that proposal too because it was always one of the strengths of openSUSE to have excellent support for multiple desktop environments but to make such a fuzz about some preselection is just ..... Back then it was decided to use whatever as default what is used by the majority which is fair in my book.
Jan/Stephan, So you expect a "GNOME ambassador" to give a linux DVD with KDE-preselected ;-) ? The people who changed distros were GNOME ambassadors in the first place and not even openSUSE-ambassadors. They were promoting openSUSE because Novell is associated with openSUSE and they are [ex-]contributors to Novell/SUSE based open-source projects like go-OO, Evolution, Mono etc. and GNOME in general. Naturally, They shifted to a different distro once the KDE-default decision was made and chose the most popular distro. However, I am not planning to ask "Let us make GNOME the default desktop in oS so that these upstream GNOME devs will be happy." Because they are less in number and more importantly, dont contribute to oS directly. The point that I wanted to highlight is : The kde-default decision is not without its adverse effects. Single digit blog-posts in p.g.o is definitely an area of concern. -- Sankar P http://psankar.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org