(This thread seems to be circling around a lot without seemingly getting anywhere... ) Adam Williamson wrote:
The problem is that when you ask someone to make a choice without understanding the options, it tends to frustrate them. This is a well-observed phenomenon in all circles, certainly including computer user interface design.
I think it's relatively important that there be a good "default" Fedora as well as choice to change things later. I personally find it a bit surprising that the choice of desktop environment is thought of as being sufficiently important that there should be no single "default". As a user, there are apps that are vastly more important to me, and for which there is choice: e.g., OpenOffice.org vs. KOffice, Thunderbird vs. Evolution (vs. Kwhatever), Firefox vs. Epiphany. I spend 90%+ of my time in my desktop using those apps, not the desktop itself - Tbird is much, much more important to me than the choice of DE. Honestly, I could care less whether the default is GNOME or KDE. In all likelihood, I wouldn't even notice the change. But it cannot be right that every important end-user software choice is presented as a different initial download option, all on equal terms, which seems to be what the request is. DEs are not special in that regard. Cheers, Alex. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
