On Jan 22, 2011, at 8:11 AM, IOhannes zmölnig wrote:
On 01/22/2011 12:02 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
It was changed to work on GNOME/metacity, which is the default on
Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc. So it is by far and away the most
common.
iirc, gnome is only widespread in the US, whereas europe (and esp.
german speaking communities) used to favour KDE.
this if course it under constant flux, but i wanted to point out that
"by far and away the most common" is a very subjective and usually
point
of view which i strive to avoid.
fgmadrs
IOhannes
Yes, this is based on my experience. According to Distrowatch http://distrowatch.com/
, these are the top 5 distros:
1 Ubuntu 2051>
2 Mint 1542>
3 Fedora 1452>
4 openSUSE 1131<
5 Debian 1109>
Of those, only openSUSE does not default to GNOME. Ubuntu is based in
UK and most of the Mint team is based in Europe. From my experience
teaching in Spain, France, Switzerland, and the UK, Ubuntu was the far
and away the most common distro I encountered. Perhaps European Pd
users don't usually use these distros but I have yet to hear from more
than a handful of people who use other setups.
But really the point is that we should make the default work for the
most common setup, and then enable plugins so people can taylor this
setting to their own.
.hc
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