2006-05-17 19:23 On Thursday 11 May 2006 23:53, Kevanf1 wrote:
I mentioned an interview with one of the marketing guys from SuSE/Novell recently. This was in conjunction with ongoing debate about whether SuSE/Novell are dropping Gnome or not.
Well, read the article yourselves now and make your own minds up. See if you conclude the same as I did and think that KDE will be dropped at some point.
The article is on the front page. You may have to scroll down a little but it's in the center column.
"Gnome will be the default desktop. But we will continue to ship and support KDE, for a number of reasons." I did not read, nor did I "smell" that KDE will be dropped at some point. But from Ubuntu sprang KUbuntu, and I believe that, /if/ KDE where dropped, KSuse would not be far away (perhaps with a different name). But to me it seems far more likely that Novell/SUSE would prefer to prevent a fork, and will therefore keep supporting KDE. The installation process of 10.1 offered a choice of desktop: KDE, GNOME, or another. I liked that, and I hope SUSE continues to do that with successive versions. Cheers, Leen