On 19-Jul-07, at 8:57 AM, Doug Scott wrote:
Manoj Joseph wrote:Darren Kenny wrote:Ubuntu have GNOME, but they also have Kubuntu, which is the same base OS with KDE as the default - there is no reason that once Indiana is out there that you couldn't manage a minor fork, using KDE as the main desktop instead of GNOME - I feel that people tend to get too sensitive about the default desktop, when inreality this is simply a choice that you can make when you log in...I guess I disagree. Remember the browser war in the 90s? Internet Explorer had an edge because it was available by default on all Windows desktops. Netscape could just not beat that.]Also Netscape forgot to improve. Netscape v4 was around way too long.
Netscape lost the browser wars long before netscape4 became stale
If you package Gnome with Indiana, the vast majority will just go withit, IMHO.If it suits their needs then really what is the problem.
And if Linux suits their needs, why are we bothering trying to attract them at all?
I personally could not care about which window manager gets in asdefault. But since this is supposed to be a community distro, how abouta vote? John has been calling for one for quite a while now. :)Also I think one thing that people forget is, if Indiana comes withapplications like Firefox, OpenOffice etc, then half on Gnome will needto be included anyway.
If that's a large concern for you, KOffice is smaller than OpenOffice ( and based on other discussions, size is very important ), and Konqueror is more standards compliant, less buggy, smaller & won't run off with all your memory like Firefox does, all while still being able to use a majority of FF's plugins
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