Another online survey

2005-05-09 Thread Dave Neary
http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT2127420238.html This one showing GNOME losing ground against KDE? which has 60% of the readership of the site in question. Not a very healthy trend... Dave. -- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org

Re: Another online survey

2005-05-09 Thread Claus Schwarm
Dave, check the discussion. The poll has been advertised in the Yoper forums and it showed in the results (18.3 %). The organizers cleared the results from this, but it's not clear yet if they also cleared the results of the other parts of the poll. Yoper is a default KDE distribution so it

Re: Another online survey

2005-05-09 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Dave, In addition, the 2004 survey does not include Ubuntu Linux which comes by default with GNOME. One can expect the link distro-graphicalinterface. The real fight to get GNOME even higher is to win more distros. In the page they also mention the 2005 survey that will start soon... Simos

Re: Another online survey

2005-05-09 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Simos Xenitellis a crit : The real fight to get GNOME even higher is to win more distros. Right. Anyone have any idea how we can go about that? It would be nice to have a 5 minute pitch for distros... in fact, someone could try to come up with one and give it as a lightning talk at GUADEC

Re: Another online survey

2005-05-09 Thread Claus Schwarm
On Mon, 09 May 2005 13:59:44 +0200 Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Simos Xenitellis a écrit : The real fight to get GNOME even higher is to win more distros. Right. Anyone have any idea how we can go about that? Is the basic assumption correct? Given the political issues

Re: Another online survey

2005-05-09 Thread Steve George
Hi Dave, I know you have distributions as one of your target customers and I can see your thinking. However, for those distributions that already have a default desktop I think you have a difficult task. From their perspective if they add another desktop all they are looking at is a more

Re: Another online survey

2005-05-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
BTW Lets not forget Foresight Linux which ships GNOME by default and has been gaining in popularity. In fact, Ken Vandine, the person who built the distro is also a GNOME Journal contributor and a big GNOME person.. I think we're going to see some good things from this distro.