On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 13:21 -0600, Robin Laing wrote: > On 03/13/2010 08:34 AM, Mail Lists wrote: > > > > I'm curious how many current KDE users we have - what percent of our > > install base? And what percent of the desktop install base ? > > > > Since the 3.5 -> 4.0 KDE pushathon, everyone I know who was a KDE user > > (myself included, and Linus too!) switched to gnome and none has yet > > gone back. > > > > At least a part of the fuss about updates seems to be driven by KDE > > wanting to be faster paced than the rest - I'm curious what percent of > > our install base this actually represents today? > > > > For me there were only 2 things disruptive I presently recall - the > > last was F11 kmail no longer working after recent update - and the > > devastatingly bad 3.5 -> 4.0 premature release. > > > > I actually like the current general pace - its stable but we get > > decent flow (tho it has slowed somewhat over the 12-18 months or so it > > seems) of upstream updates/bug fixes and largely when appropriate larger > > version bumps. Tho things like firefox lag too much imho - but I no > > longer care as I now use chrome which is way way better. > > > > Sure there are little hiccups here and there but overall things are > > non-disruptive and decently up to date - and that is the right balance. > > > > Congrats fedora management, redhat and contributors - and thank you. > > > > > > > > Late to the discussion but I prefer KDE over Gnome and with Novell's > push to get more Mono into Gnome, I will avoid it. > > The move to KDE 4.0 wasn't pleasant. Now I find that most of KDE is > back to normal (I use the classic menu). New settings and configuration > options are what keeps me on KDE. The biggest thing is the right click > on the desktop and I have Konsole as the first item. This feature is > what got me to try KDE when Gnome removed that from the menu. That comes back if you install nautilus-open-terminal. it is interesting that all this is a matter taste.. KDE drives me crazy. Which is interesting assuming I am correct that KDE is the open source implementation of CDE. (Is that true?) and I was on the IEEE committee that approved CDE. > I don't use Kmail or many of the other KDE developments but I use a > mixture of the best tools for my needs. > > I think that many of those that jumped ship when KDE changed will feel > the same thing when Gnome makes it's change. It will be interesting if > Mono is pushed into Gnome to the point that RedHad cannot work around > it. Could KDE become the default Fedora desktop? > > Some of my family members prefer Gnome. > > -- > Robin Laing -- ======================================================================= Old mail has arrived. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
