On 04/20/2017 07:16 PM, Ruediger Meier wrote:
On Wednesday 19 April 2017, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
Am 19.04.2017 um 12:32 schrieb Vojtěch Zeisek:
I liked very much the idea that installer should somehow "check" the hardware and if it is too weak to run KDE/GNOME, the installer should as default promote e.g. XFCE and/or notify user KDE/GNOME would require more CPU, memory, whatever. I have no idea how difficult would it be. I think everyone can imagine frustration from running terribly slooooooow system. Especially when some more lightweight DE would run fast on very same HW.
While this might seem like a good idea at first, imagine a user (not necessarily a newbie) doing three installations on three slightly different machines, doing exactly the same every time and getting three totally different results.
Not good.
I see it the same way. We should simply add some performance dependent hints to the DE descriptions.
Moreover regarding "randomized installations". I don't like that selecting different DEs may also affect the rest of the system. Why do we get a random display manager, dependent on the installation order of the window managers? Here I would wish we had more sane global defaults. DE maintainers should not be allowed to push their personal favorite DM.
Well at the moment selecting a desktop equates to selecting its pattern and we let the distro maintainers choose what goes into there patterns.
Regarding the topic of this thread. I don't care much which desktop selection is the default. But I would keep a pre-selected one. Since I'm a conservative guy who doesn't like changes at all I would simply keep KDE as default. But only if sddm is either fixed or replaced by something which works for more use cases.
You always have the choice to install a different DM if you don't like the one that was suggested by the project, this is as simple as installing the DM you want then editing /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, maybe if enough people agree with you the maintainer would hopefully change his mind. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B