On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 6:28 PM, drago01 wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 6:04 PM, drago01 wrote: >>> Why treat XFCE as second class citizen ... >> >> Easy answer: because the size of its userbase is not in the same order >> of magnitude with Gnome. > > Yeah but only because it is treated as a second class citizen (I hate > using this kind of arguments but I think you should get the point). > Possible. But staying within the topic, KDE, even as a second class citizen in Fedora, has a comparable number of users to Gnome, unlike other DE's that you mentioned. >>> ok lets add it to the list. >>> But what about LXDE ? ..... >>> >>> You see where this leads too ... a distro should (I would even say >>> must) provide a default choice. >> >> This is weak reasoning because of your above weak starting point. > > No its not, the above point is simply replacing KDE with something > else so that you can see how your own arguments sound to others. > Please (re)read Kevin's previous emails. He gives some numbers and explanations. That will help you understand where your assumption is weak. >>> Its a distro not a bunch of packages that gets shipped. >>> >> >> So? > > We can't simply provide a list of 15000 packages and tell the user > "please choose" we have to select a default set of packages. (ie what > we are doing now). > > This has nothing to do with KDE, I just think that asking the user > tons of question "what would you like to use" is simply wrong its OUR > (ie. the distro) job to do this choice. > Again, please (re)read Kevin's previous emails and the original FESCo ticket. There is a proposal to solve this issue too. Best, Orcan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
