On Tuesday 04 August 2009 14:43:00 Martin Schlander wrote:
Tirsdag den 4. august 2009 14:16:02 skrev Andreas Jaeger:
Desktop Policy
0. The following text uses GNOME and KDE in alphabetical order. These rules apply to development of openSUSE only, not for any other Novell products.
1. Both GNOME and KDE are first class desktops in openSUSE: neither is technically superior to the other. openSUSE should be known as the distribution with the best GNOME desktop and the best KDE desktop!
2. We make it easy to choose between these two desktops during installation, install both of them - or install others as well.
3. On the relevant screen during installation the most popular desktop is preselected, the desktops are listed in alphabetical order.
4. This screen will explain that both GNOME and KDE are first class desktops and the default is based on popularity.
5. Let's sit together at the openSUSE conference and decide what both GNOME and KDE beeing first-class desktops signifies and how all desktop development teams can work together.
Looks pretty good to me. Have two comments.
* I think that the most popular desktop should also be listed first. Or we risk continuing to send a mixed and confusing message to new users and other "outsiders".
I would go for "alphabetical". New users see the pre-selected button.
* What would the text in the desktop selection screen say? A summary of the above?
IMO a rewording of number 4 - I'm sure we came up with some good wording, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126