On 7 October 2010 09:21, Graham Lauder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday 07 Oct 2010 19:11:45 Mihai Dobrescu wrote: >> I think that I read somewhere that Mandriva *started *as KDE centric. >> AFAIK, Gnome, KDE and some other popular DE are supported and Mandriva >> spent an important effort to make them look alike from the main menu and >> other customizations point of view. >> As file browsers I like Dolphin, Konqueror and I use Krusader a lot. >> As internet browser, Firefox is my favorite, although I use Opera >> occasionally (it's ergonomic, free but not open sourced). I would like to >> see Firefox having Chrome's architecture (each tab in its process) and less >> memory consumer (this is due to plugins too - the pluggable architecture is >> what makes me stick with it). > > > Don't kill konqueror it's my default ftp client. > > There are already a bunch of Gnome centric distros. > > KDE centric would be no issue nobody else is so in fact it would be a > excellent point of difference. In fact, if it was my decision I'd leave Gnome > to Ubuntu, Redhat, CentOS, Debian, Solaris and all those Gnome centric distros > and concentrate on being the best KDE environment. > > Cheers > GL >
I think all DE's should be supported as much as possible. Even in Mandriva, which theoretically was a KDE-centric distro, both KDE and GNOME were equally supported AFAICS. -- Ahmad Samir
