That is probably because either your vision is clouded by KDE-love or because you are not seeing the right places. Compare the number of tweets/blogs on planetgnome for 11.3 release against say 11.1/11.2 . In my personal observation, the tweets (on openSUSE release etc.) by people (such as in mono project) have reduced to almost nil, ever since the default-desktop decision is made. IIRC the number of blog posts for 11.3 on p.g.o was not more than 2-3 posts whereas it was in the order of dozens for earlier releases. Some of the GNOME ambassadors in my part of the world who used to give openSUSE DVDs, switched to Ubuntu.
I'm sorry but if they switched the distro because of some checkbox ticked by default during installation then it is probably good riddance imho.
I don't use Gnome but I'm against that proposal too because it was always one of the strengths of openSUSE to have excellent support for multiple desktop environments but to make such a fuzz about some preselection is just ..... Back then it was decided to use whatever as default what is used by the majority which is fair in my book.
I also have no particular preference but have most experience on KDE as I installed SuSE (as was) and have continued into openSUSE. I switched to gnome with 11.2 as I found KDE wasn't behaving nicely on my hardware. It's a major benefit for openSUSE and KDE and gnome that both desktops in a well developed and useable state, and I think both KDE and gnome benefit from the kind of switching I did. It's not for nothing that you get streets of tailors or that all the butchers are in one area of a market - people like to be able to switch and businesses / organisations find it easier to steal customers from each other. It would be even better if I could choose applications knowing they'd work equally well on both desktops, then desktop choice becomes a matter of taste rather than a necessity and I could change my desktop with the weather! David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org