Andre Truter wrote:
If Novell/SUSE announce that NLD 10 or SLES 10 will not include KDE and only have GNOME, then I would say: Okay, maybe time to panic.
If they anounce that SUSE Linux will not include KDE anymore, then I would say : PANIC!
And if the OpenSUSE project announce that KDE will not be supported anymore then I would say: Did the KDE project die or something?
1. A lot of KDE developers are paid by SUSE. How is money made: by selling Enterprise products; certainly not by putting OpenSUSE out for freebeer download. If KDE slips out of focus at SUSE's it can't be good for those KDE developers that have to eat, can it? 2. If KDE remains default in OpenSUSE, but Gnome is default for Enterprise, is not really a good thing. People want the same thing at home and at work. Think Windows XP, home, server, it's all the same. 3. How long until another "cost cutting" wave comes at Novell and sees KDE as a waste of money? It will be much easier to see it that way, if the Enterprise products have come to not depend on it. 4. The power of DEFAULT is immense. The DEFAULT reigns supreme. 5. Gnome is brown. Windows Vista isn't, it looks good. Which would you show to Windows people (that just use the default) that are taking a look at Linux for the first time? The brown thing or the good looking KDE?