A web poll from linuxquestions.org? Surely you can't be serious with this mail? -- Evandro Em Dom, 2012-02-12 às 11:35 -0500, Genes MailLists escreveu: > 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
