Moin, On Thursday 20 August 2009 22:48:17 Charles Kerr wrote:
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Michael Loeffler<michl@novell.com> wrote:
Hi all,
After consideration of the project discussion I discussed the feature request further with the openSUSE Board and other leaders within the openSUSE project and came to the decision to follow the request: we will default the radio button to KDE in the DVD installer. Therefore, with openSUSE 11.2 release, the KDE desktop will be installed if the user accepts the default setting. Users can also choose the GNOME desktop at this stage.
http://www.h-online.com/open/openSUSE-to-default-to-KDE--/news/114050 is reporting on this decision in the following way:
"From openSUSE 11.2 onwards, the installation process from DVD will offer a choice between KDE and GNOME, with KDE pre-selected."
Lubos blogged about it this way: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4052
"If GNOME one day becomes more popular in openSUSE than KDE, it becomes the default. As simple as that."
Which of these statements is a correct interpretation of the decision? Making this clear and upfront now may save some frustration later on. Both are correct. We pre-select KDE via defaulting the radio button to KDE on the "desktop selection" screen. The decision was made due to usability reason in combination with the currently more used desktop which is KDE as of today. This may change in the future and then we may change it to the desktop most used in the future - as we're doing it in many areas of the distribution, eg. ReiserFS is not default anymore nor is Konqueror our default browser anymore. Things change over time.
Best Michael
cheers, Charle
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