On Feb 11, 2012 6:05 PM, "Orcan Ogetbil" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Brendan Jones wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've been thinking about what kind desktop environment would best suit the > > needs of audio users. > > > > Since the Gnome 3 release I've kind of abandoned GNOME as it doesn't really > > quite gel with my workflow. Since then I've been hovering over KDE/XFCE, but > > the latest mongrel openbox (mixture of xfce4/qt-razor) setup I'm using now > > seems to be winning. > > > > The qt razor project seems really exciting [1] - I've found the components > > to be really quite mature but alas a little sparse. Razor is not in the > > repos yet but there is talk of including it and it is under heavy > > development [2]. I'm wondering if razor could be used as the default desktop > > for an audio spin? If the desktop team ever decide to endorse a Razor spin > > we could leverage off their efforts as well. > > > > Jus thinking aloud - let me know what you think > > > > Brendan > > > > [1] > > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home://TI_Eugene://QtDesktop/Fedora_16/ > > [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Razor-qt_Spin > > Experience says, desktop environment (DE) and text editor preference > discussions can easily shift into religious debates. Frankly I haven't > tried Gnome3, but I always found Gnome2 so counter-intuitive that I > doubt I will ever bother installing Gnome3. > > I have a very subjective tendency towards using Qt based environments, > perhaps because I code in Qt. I will take a look at what you proposed, > as it seems interesting. > > On the other hand, I have a feeling that whoever spends the most > effort to build the spin, gets the choose the default DE. At least > this is the way things usually go in the free software world. > > Best, > Orcan
Some people will prefer Gnome, others KDE, others Xfce, etc. I don't think there is a DE that's best for audio users. So I don't see why we should make a spin with a different DE than the one the Fedora community has chosen for the default LiveCD.
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