Hello! Am Freitag, 10. März 2006 14:32 schrieb Adam Tauno Williams:
NLD is a Novell product, they are going to do research and make a decision. This has to happen. As a system administrator in a shop using both Open Source and proprietary solutions I can't begin to explain how e-x-h-a-u-s-t-i-n-g this kind of 'debate' (I use the term loosely) is. Companies want *PRODUCTS* not *PROJECTS*, companies don't give a &*@^*&@ about projects. Companies need defined solutions to problems, which is the point of all this technology in the first place. If you don't like product A then you go find and buy product B. You can use either GNOME or KDE, or several other, desktops on OpenSUSE (which is really more of a project then a product). A company isn't going to give it's users a desktop choice (not any SANE company at least) so why would a desktop PRODUCT need to include multiple desktops (even if NLD does)? If you don't like a desktop product you go and find another one.
So? I was not asking the question which one is best, or why I would like to see any of the two as default. I just want to have an answer, whether Novell has decided that Gnome is better for their desktop-product. Whatever better means for them. If the decision was made, one should be able to state it clearly.
so one might have altering defaults, which is not really less confusing then having none. Is Novell going to re-asses the default on every release?
A sure way to sink the company.
Oh, of course, the best companies are those that make a decision once and do not re-asses. Very convincing! So Novell will never ever have KDE as default again, no matter how good it becomes. Yep, makes sense. Sven