Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@suse.cz> writes:
On Friday 31 of July 2009, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
To me a switch to KDE default looks like putting GNOME one row to the back. Can we find a better solution than we currently have without giving out this message? Or is this no great alternative?
There are really 2 ways to look at feature #306967:
1) Make KDE the default, and make it a political statement. That is what the openFATE proposal looks like, that we should say "openSUSE is primarily a KDE distribution".
2) Make KDE the default, and try to not make it look like a political statement. This is what the proposal on this mailing list looks like, to preselect the KDE radio button in the installation page, and that's it, don't make a fuss of it.
Option 1) is tempting, as I think there would be a lot to gain, but even option 2) is an improvement, purely for the user experience.
So, first of all, can we all make sure we are discussing the same thing?
I hate to say it but: to those familiar with the gnome-kde discussions, a preselection of eitehr of them always will be recieved and understood as a statement about the other one, too. It's like setting emacs as the default editor (or vi): it's a statement about the 'others'. And I wonder wheter the luxury of having one click less is worth tenderly and inadvertently yet unavoidably stepping on the toes of 1/3 of our users? S. -- Susanne Oberhauser +49-911-74053-574 SUSE -- a Novell Business OPS Engineering Maxfeldstraße 5 Processes and Infrastructure Nürnberg SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org