Hi > I'll agree with you there, but with one twist. *If* a desktop > environment is to be moved to Extras, why would it have to be KDE? Or > in other words, why is GNOME the default? Because of historical > reasons? No. because redhat has more gnome developers and does all its integration bits for gnome. its the default desktop environment. > > Like you said, GNOME vs. KDE is hugely political or as others like to > call it, religion. In a community driven distribution, which Fedora is > supposed to be, you'll never get everyone to agree which environment > should be the default. so, lets have xfce, fluxbox and the rest of the gang inside core?. why call it fedora core anymore then. thats going the way of debian -- Regards, Rahul Sundaram