On 02/12/2012 06:19 AM, mike cloaked wrote: > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2011-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-95/desktop-environment-of-the-year-919888/ > > Shows an interesting result in terms of DE popularity - though given > the many discussions not only on Fedora lists but on other lists for > other distros also I am not really that surprised to see which are the > top few in the poll. > Interesting poll - of course some will jump on it as a non-scientific and why it's inadequate because it either is too broad an audience or too narrow .. :-) Or perhaps with only 600+ participants the std error may be too high (what is it anyway if one makes reasonable distributional assumptions for the poll takers .. stats quiz :-) ) .. however it jives exactly with my own experience where everyone I know dropped gnome shell and moved to either KDE or xfce (not without grumbling) .. of course my experience is def too small a sample size :-) While it may make sense to make KDE the default DE for fedora - I suspect that this cannot happen in fedora due to pressures from the large number of gnome devs associated with Fedora - or could it? Should it? I wonder if moving Gnome shell as a tablet spin and making KDE the default laptop/desktop DE would have been a really smart move. Is it too late? Perhaps we all really want a phone DE on our 42 inch desktops with a touch screen that somehow doesn't cause muscle strain ... g -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
