Fredag den 31. juli 2009 17:10:47 skrev Will Stephenson:
On Friday 31 July 2009 16:49:10 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
Con:
* We may alienate our GNOME users -- while a smaller percentage than our KDE users, ~30% of the community is still important to me. * We may alienate our GNOME contributors * We will not encourage any GNOME contributors to choose openSUSE if they're not already here
A default desktop decision in favour of KDE won't please our GNOME users or contributors, but it will actually stimulate and catalyse the openSUSE GNOME community and those around XFCE and other WMs. I've already mentioned Kubuntu and fedora-kde as examples of this effect - both of them flourish as a mirror image of their distributions' stated defaults. Call it the red rag to a bull effect.
Maybe it should be added that Fedora (~40% KDE) and *buntu (~33% KDE) both have a considerably higher percentage of KDE users, than the openSUSE percentage of GNOME users (22-25%). As KDE4 starts to mature and gain momentum I don't see that changing. So while the current no-default situation has alienated a lot of KDE users, it hasn't really succeeded in attracting GNOME users. It's a complete failure, and it would be best to correct the mistake that was made. I believe Debian uses as default whatever is most often installed. Maybe we should figure out a way to do the same. Then we wouldn't need to discuss, and noone could claim it was a political statement. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org