On 05/04/2009 09:50 PM, Callum Lerwick wrote:
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 23:15 -0400, Trever Fischer wrote:
I'm confused. Is this thread about bashing other desktop design philosophies
now? I thought this was all originally a thread to introduce a way to put the
major desktop environments on even footing.
My point is putting GNOME and KDE on "even footing" is not advantageous
to our overall ease of use. Yes, I'm disagreeing with the OP.
Care to elaborate? Why is it "not advantageous to our overall ease of
use" (whatever this actually means)?
I think you two should take a step
back here and look at what we're trying to accomplish.
I don't know what you're trying to accomplish, but IMHO ease of use is
far more advantageous to the distribution's overall health than
political neutrality that no one but a bunch of nerds cares about.
Like "net neutrality" that only "bunch of nerds cares about"?
Let's just put a big
'ole 3-way radio button in the installer with "GNOME", "KDE", and "Other/None"
in the DVD installer and be done with it. I realize that picking a desktop
environment probably isn't something a new Linux user is familiar with. But
that doesn't mean we can't put some link on the download page explaining the
term and the differences between the two.
And as Joel's essay points out, no amount of explaining or lecturing is
going to make the user care. You can't make them care. They will never
care. They want Firefox. They've heard of Firefox. They don't want GNOME
or KDE, they don't want Epiphany, they don't want Konqueror, they want
Firefox, they want their Myspace, and they want their webmail.
...they want Windows... and so on...
I want KDE but then again you'll say that I am not "them"... Come on!
"They"? As agent Mulder would say "they are out there"?
The only way I see this being resolved is with:
A) We cave in and give the user a choice, which is something few other distros
with a graphical installer do (only suse comes to mind), or
B) We remain a stick in the mud, staying with the tried and true GNOME
desktop.
Picking A will almost certainly bring in more KDE users and help make KDE less
of a second class citizen in Fedora. Picking B will make one less decision for
linux newbies to make when they install Fedora.
I believe option A will benefit fedora in the longer run.
And I disagree. B is better.
And I disagree. A is better.
What do we do now then?
--
thufor
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