Joe I do think that users need a choice, and a default is required,
but whatever default that needs to be made needs to occur based on
empirical data. That's why I am suggesting statistics gathering as a
way to help you arrive at that decision, and to continue to inject
valuable data into the deicision making process.
Until that data is collected and fully understood, I suggest that the
"delault" choice be generated at random on each installation, with the
first and second place positioning also generated at random.
Psychologically I am not sure what the behavior of the user will be if
KDE is always first on the list and GNOME is always second, regardless
of which one is selected by default.
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Basil Chupin
wrote: The Pandora's Box has been opened......... :-D
So let's close it. (I'm ignoring the parallel to the myth here, because everyone knows once you open Pandora's box...)
Folks - the decision is not one that makes everyone happy. We know this. It's *impossible* to make a decision that will satisfy everyone in this discussion.
But, please -- we all have better things to do than squabble over this. We have a release coming up in November that can use some testing love, for example -- and arguing over a default desktop isn't going to make 11.2 even a tiny bit better. We've already lost a ridiculous amount of time on this feature and probably driven a number of people off the -project mailing list because of the huge amount of noise related to this issue.
Thanks,
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