On 11 September 2017 at 14:19, Gerald B. Cox <gbcox@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 3:45 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 07:17:56PM -0400, Gerald Henriksen wrote: >> > While you (and others) may well know the name of the software you like >> > for a given task, new people will not have that knowledge. >> >> Isn't that really a discoverability problem? >> >> I could imagine having menu items pointing to best-in-class >> applications which are not actually installed. Selecting the menu >> item would bring up a box asking you if you want to install it. > > > That wasn't his main point which you removed: > "But there is also the audience who are trying out KDE (or Gnome/etc) > for the first time and providing them with an installed base of > software to try / check out is convenient and the right thing to do." > > This is an issue about default applcaitons. As I said above: > "I believe you are missing the point of defaults.... which is to provide as > complete environment as possible out of the box. Since this is a KDE spin, > we should be providing as complete of a KDE environment as possible. Users > shouldn't be required to go on a treasure hunt to seek out available KDE > applications. If you don't want to use a KDE default you can easily either > go into settings and change the defaults, remove the package you don't want, > etc." > > > To provide a purely anecdotal data point, what I use the KDE spin for is to install a version of Fedora with the KDE desktop. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
