On Wednesday 09 November 2005 4:37 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Jerry Feldman
[11-09-05 14:43]: None. It seems that Kurt Pfeifle, who is quoted in the article thinks that SuSE is going to drop KDE, and there is no indication that it will not be available on future SuSE distros.
and 'Kurt Pfeifle' is an ??expert??. I believe that if you look further, you will find that his article has one true statement and the rest is garbage. Novell is making gnome the default (keyword default) on installs of it's commercial products, SLES and NLD. That was a true statement. The rest of his article is _opinion_, and not well founded.
DO you have an argument, or are you just ranting(tm)?
I am not ranting. I'm stating an opinion that I would prefer to see a wide range of choices (KDE, GNOME, FVWM, Window Maker, ICE, ...) all available in the future as they are now. I paid for SuSE 10 (although I had a free copy of the CD set). My opinion is: "Neither KDE nor GNOME should be the default, but let the user chose during installation". While the user can chose today, KDE is the default.
You are entitled to your opinion. Most everyone has one of those and one of something else. Equate.
Usually (another keyword) when two or more choices are presented, one is made default. You are not forced to chose default, or to like the choice, or to agree with the author's presentation.
If you were to use another distro based on your _opinion_ present above, your sanity would be suspect and you would be performing on a level with Mr pfeifle (lowercase intentional).
Equate!
btw, you _do_ have the choice to not install a window-manager on the first go-around, then install the window-manager of your choice later.
ps: your method of quoting w/o leaving a space between your statements and the OP's is *very* difficult to read. (my opinion)! I am quoting.
Basically, I was responding to either you or Stephen.
IMHO, SuSE is the best of the distros, which is why I pay for it.
I quoted "pfeifle" only to mention the rumor he stated. It is the statements
that Ted Haeger made that I tend to belive. But, my point about setting up
a number of radio buttons, you do not need to define a default. Just
require the user to chose one. When you vote for a candidate, there is no
default. They could make either the default as long as the choices are
simple and straightforward to the user, especially to the new user.
The problem here is that KDE vs. GNOME is similar to the vi vs. EMACS. It is
a religion. Right now I have both running with the KDM. Linux is about
choices, so give the user the choices up front in a small radio button
choice.
The issue in the installer is how the choices are presented. They are
presented today under the package selections line where if you want to
change you must go into package selections. That works fine for me, but not
for some guy coming from Windows. I don't care if GNOME is the one on top
with the default or KDE is the one on top with the default. The issue is to
give an outward choice to the new user.
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Jerry Feldman