2009/8/23 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 08/23/2009 09:25 PM, Thomas Janssen wrote: > Forcing users to pick a desktop environment is no more a favorable point > than forcing users to pick a text editor. Well, not really the same. There are already some different text editors installed by default. Vi, nano for example and the graphical is anyways choosen by the DE. Anyways. The whole point in this thread is about to have a "general Download" link on the front page that leads to a download page with a "default enabled" (radio button for example) image of the "fedora gnome edition". And the other Fedora Editions like KDE, XFCE, LXDE and the different spins we have. You can combine that with lots of information with ajax technology or popup windows or links to completely other pages. If you can't grow your userbase with it, you can't anyways. > In either case, it is the > distribution's job to pick a default. Nobody, absolutely nobody said you shouldn't pick a default. Of course pick it, but show the rest as well in the same manner. So you can satisfy everybody and have a default. >> I cant completely agree with you here. I'm not saying that Fedora is >> wrong with it, but the *how* is wrong > > If you want to grow your >> userbase, you have to listen to your community. If you don't do it, >> don't wonder if it's not growing (i do understand that you can't >> listen for every single peep). > > Then, what does listening to the community mean, exactly? You mean because of the "every peep"? That's obviously. If your userbase is 10.000 user (fiction) and 5 users have the wish for XY, that's a peep you, most likely, can't satisfy. If there's a vote of 4000 users of your userbase, you should maybe listen closer or you might get some trouble. And if my english would be as good as my german i could explain it with better words. Sorry. > Community is > not a single entity with a chorus view point. The free software > community tends to be a very diverse group with very different and > strong view points that contradict each other. I don't agree that > fanboysim in a voting poll is equivalent to listening to the community. So what is listen to the community for you? And it has nothing to do with fanboyism what i wrote. It's just the example with KDE. But oh well, the "fanboyism" was the biggest wish of the community. Look at that. -- LG Thomas Dubium sapientiae initium _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
