On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:07:49AM +0200, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
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?
Lots of Open Source projects aren't on the SUSE payroll, they get by.
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.
Actually Windows Server 2003 looks like.... A polished Windows 2000. XP looks nothing like it. Again, you're the one saying BY DEFAULT ;)
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.
See above.
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?
Enlightenemnt. The water wave look on the bottom making it looks like you have a pond on your desktop, the cool sound effects, and of course Eterm which I miss immensly. Not to mention the themes for Eterm make it look like it's stright out of Star Wars. THAT is what I show my Windows using people. And they are blown away every time.
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