On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Genes MailLists wrote: >> 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? > > IMHO, not only should the KDE spin become the default, but the Xfce spin > should replace the GNOME spin (which of course needs to stop calling itself > the "Desktop spin") on the mirrors. GNOME is no longer a major desktop! Xfce > is now the second most popular desktop after KDE Plasma Desktop. > >> 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 ... > > For a tablet spin, Plasma Active makes a lot more sense than gnome-shell: > http://plasma-active.org/ > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PlasmaActive > > Plasma Active is actually designed for tablets, whereas the gnome-shell > developers denied on more than one occasion that tablets were their intended > target, even though its bizarre design happens to work out better for > tablets than for normal computers. > > Kevin Kofler > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel The confusion in the Linux Desktop space was a big reason why I jumped from Fedora to a Mac. I love KDE and it would be a great default, I just wish that the decision hadn't been made to develop KDE in such a way as to push the graphics envelope. While I realize by Dell B130 is old, I should be able to drag a window around without artifacts (with or win out compositing. Ubuntu's Unity run the best. I feel that a lot of effort is being put into bling for bling's sake. On my Mac most of the "bling" enhances usability. I wish KDE didn't use 5-10% of my CPU at idle. IMO, the DE should attempt to consume as few resources as possible. -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
