On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 14:08 -0400, David Boles wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 10:27 -0400, David Boles wrote: > >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >>> On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 20:23 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: > >>> > >>> I don't know if it's actually *possible* to install Fedora without > >>> Gnome, but I take your point. > >> > >> You can install Fedora and chose to not install the GNOME desktop. Since GNOME > >> is the default you have to actively chose *not* to install it. You have to > >> uncheck the box. > >> > >> > >>> Fair enough. My original post was in answer to a question about whether > >>> KDE was a "second-class citizen" in Fedora, which is why I didn't > >>> mention other desktops, but of course the same comments apply to them as > >>> well. > >> > >> Fedora has a very active team that works on KDE. Calling KDE "a "second-class > >> citizen" in Fedora" would hurt their feeling I would think. ;-) > > > > Well we can't have that can we :-) Seriously though, I don't doubt the > > efforts put into KDE by Fedora people. My comment (yet again ...) is > > that many people on this list, and at least some of those responsable > > for the Fedora docs, simply assume that the desktop is Gnome. In fact > > we've even had examples today of "select whatever" or "click on xxx" > > without the qualifying "under Gnome". If anyone said "select whatever" > > or "click on xxx" where whatever and xxx were KDE features, and didn't > > mention KDE explicitly, we'd hear all about it. > > > > That's all. > > > Hmm... Okay as clearly as I think that I say this. KDE, GNOME, XFCE, etc, are > desktops. Fedora is an OS. Different animals completely. > > No configuration applications in Fedora, that I know of, require any desktop > at all. When someone suggests that 'you go here and run this app' they are > *looking* at their install. Fedora appears to have gone to great links to make > the menus the same so that the 'you go here and run this app' suggestions work > no matter what desktop you chose. > > And it would be nice if we, all of us, could get over this 'you're picking on > my Desktop' thing. Linux is about choice. Pick what you like and go with it. > I, myself, like GNOME. But I don't 'hate' KDE. I choose to use GNOME. You like > KDE? Go for it. ;-) Seems people want to read into my post something which isn't there. I'm afraid there's not much I can do about that. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
