Feature changed by: Tim Edwards (tk83) Feature #312959, revision 10 Title: Make the best working desktop default openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Stefan Seyfried (seife) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: For every distribution, make the best working desktop default. Right now, KDE is default even though it is obviously broken. Let's decide for each release, which desktop is the best working and give that one the honor of being the default. Which metrics to apply to decide which desktop is good working and which one is not is open to debate, we could go for things like "open bug count" for example. Maybe we should limit the selection to "general purpose desktops" and leave out the more esoteric ones like awesome, larswm and such, but decide at least among * KDE * GNOME * LXDE * XFCE Which are all full featured desktops ready for end users. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: An actually working desktop Discussion: #1: Jos Poortvliet (jospoortvliet) (2011-11-12 17:05:23) We could indeed settle on LXDE as default desktop (I'm fairly sure the lowest common denominator in terms of features offers the least bugs) but I'm not sure if that'll make many users happy. Surely each desktop has its issues but for new users GNOME and KDE both do a reasonable job despite their greater number of bugs and inconveniences compared to XFCE and LXDE. #2: Stanley Miller (stan_qaz) (2011-11-12 21:27:29) One of the key reasons I give OpenSuse to new* users is because it defaults to KDE. I don't use other desktops and have difficulty supporting new users that pick one of the other offerings. *New to Linux, most are 60+ years old and need click by click help for a lot of tasks. #3: Joseph Mitzen (duncreg) (2011-11-12 23:18:17) OpenSUSE 11.3 and KDE pulled me, a lifelong Windows user, away from XP and the Windows 7 upgrade I was contemplating instead. I've been using KDE 8+ hours a day since then. Have I just missed the fact that KDE is "obviously broken"? I'm still finding new features of KDE 16 months later and still haven't even made the plunge into "activities" yet .... #4: Eduard Huguet (eduardhc) (2011-11-13 11:52:23) Please, stop the "KDE is broken" crap. Seriously. + #5: Tim Edwards (tk83) (2011-11-14 10:00:44) + Whoever the administrator of openFATE is please close these continuous + attempts by one or two people to re-hash the KDE-as-default decision. + There are already openFATEs open for this, and the decision to have KDE + as default got overwhelming support + (https://features.opensuse.org/306967) while the one for default GNOME + got heavily voted down (https://features.opensuse.org/307495). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312959