On 8/4/10 3:12 PM, Stephan Kulow wrote:
Am Mittwoch 04 August 2010 schrieb Vincent Untz:
Le mardi 03 août 2010, à 16:25 +0200, Pavol Rusnak a écrit :
The proposal is thus: let's focus the openSUSE efforts on KDE as the main application and desktop provider and put a lot of effort in customizing, simplifying and polishing it to be ready for end users. Of course we should also make sure we cater as good as possible for Qt and KDE developers, giving for example MeeGo developers a welcoming home.
Note: This proposal is not meant to start another flamewar, nor to drop GNOME or any other desktop environment (of course there still will be GNOME, LXDE and Xfce Spins available), it's just about our primary focus.
I just want to highlight the fact that this proposal goes against the statement that was made last year [1]:
I think a lot of the proposals are against "we will continue to strive to provide the best GNOME and KDE desktop experience.".
Greetings, Stephan
I've been following these discussions, but have not commented much. The thought that we will gain by trying to move the focus away from one of the Tier 1 desktops to me is short of insane. There are few gains IMO to be had if tomorrow either Gnome or KDE were to lose equal status in the distro. Indeed one of the key strengths of openSUSE is the both the good fortune to have resources and of having both key Gnome and KDE developers working on the distro, as well as upstream, at the same time. A while back, Gnome was definitely not of the same polish as KDE was at the same time. No longer. That is a good thing TM. I hope that does not change in the future. Even though I mostly work on KDE/Qt related things, I try to find time to also test/package Gnome things. Why ? Because some important parts of the openSUSE desktop come from both DE's. As a contributor, I like that there is actually good collaboration from the respective developers. As a user, I _need_ a good Gnome stack and good KDE stack for the desktop. Cheers, Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org