2009/7/31 Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@suse.cz>:
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?
IMHO any of them will have more effect in Gnome than in KDE... and the Gnome effect will not be a good one. If you want - KDE devs: talk about how great openSUSE KDE is in planetkde.org. - Gnome users to switch: a default will not make them switch. - New users: they will change to another distro to avoid making a desktop selection... you expect them to be able to create an useful bug report? Before they will be "useful users" they will try both desktops at some point anyway. If we really want to help the "next-next user", giving him a default, and we want to be representative of the user base... make the default random, adjusting the probability of each option from http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/e/ec/Survey_openSUSE110.pdf or whatever source of this info we have. But I would keep the no default... at most make the sort order random. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org