Le mercredi 06 octobre 2010 à 23:18 -0400, Sorteal a écrit : > On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 04:01 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > 2010/10/7 Marc Paré <[email protected]>: > > > > > > I guess this information would have to come from someone from the core dev > > > group. Just so that we know for sure. So, is Mageia going to be > > > principally > > > a KDE distro with offers during installation to install GNOME and other > > > desktops? Or is it going to be a desktop agnostic distro where the user > > > eventually picks the desktop sometime during the installation processs? > > > > > > This may help with this thread on the talk of browsers. > > > > Pls correct me if I'm wrong but I don't know any browser which is DE > > dependent - well, there's konqueror, if you want to call this "I want > > to be everything" a browser. But for real browsers, what does it > > matter which DE is used? > > While Mandriva officially supported both GNOME and KDE, I do remember > the last time I tried the GNOME version of Mandriva it was pretty much a > raw GNOME install.
Yeah, that's in fact a feature. GNOME was manager by Frederic Crozat, who is a gnome developer, so he followed quite closely gnome decisions. Some people may argue that a distro is here to enhance software, but the first goal is to distribute. And since everybody think distro should collaborate more, pushing upstream is exactly this kind of collaboration. -- Michael Scherer
