On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 10:19 +0200, Martin Schlander wrote:
Mandag den 3. august 2009 09:58:07 skrev Alberto Passalacqua:
This is not about treating KDE users as second class citizens. They are already not treated as such. I have some difficulty to see why contributors are actually blocked now, and can become suddenly more interested by selecting a radio button during the installation. Is there any actual contributor that explicitly said "I do not contribute because of that"? Did anyone actually say it would be more interested in contributing if the default DE were KDE?
You were around when Novell threatened to drop KDE from SLE, when they changed the installer to (discretely but clearly) push GNOME, and when they shoved a GTK updater applet in the KDE installation, so you should really know better.
These and other ill-considered actions have chased away a lot of KDE users, and made the remaining ones feel like openSUSE might turn against them any minute. And made lots and lots of potential openSUSE KDE users look elsewhere.
Adding the preselection would remedy the mistakes of the past in a second - as well as solving all the other problems caused by not having a default.
Whether you are right or wrong about the above, the classic "Two wrongs make a right" [1] does not make for a good argument.
GNOME users wouldn't feel threatened at all, since they know GNOME is the SLED default and hence it's not going anywhere.
Did you ask any GNOME users about this or did you just make it up so that it looks good? And please, don't throw these sort of things around, especially since SLED is not openSUSE. Cheers, Magnus [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_wrongs_make_a_right -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org