Søndag den 2. august 2009 20:44:13 skrev Jim Henderson:
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.
Yes. The preference of 70% of our users. And stop trying to pretend that the current non-default with GNOME on top isn't seen as specification of a preference by everybody.
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
I can't believe this idea still lives. It doesn't solve *any* of the problems that the feature request tries to address (confusion for new users, alienating the vast majority of our community etc.). Instead it'd make matters much worse than the status quo and creates a ton of new problems - bloat, waste of disk space, menu clutter, alienating KDE *and* GNOME fanboys, what to (auto)login to on first boot.. etc. It's a horrible idea. The idea of randomized sort order is a bit better - but still a non-solution to the actual problems. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org