Re: Silly question about panel

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On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 18:26 +0200, Antonio M wrote:
> 2008/4/27 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 16:16 +0200, Antonio M wrote:
> >  > 2008/4/27 Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >  > > On Sunday 27 April 2008 14:54:43 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >  > >  > I did see the solution. My point was that assuming "most of us" are on
> >  > >  > Gnome is a) ingenuous (what data do you base it on? -- any stats I've
> >  > >  > seen say it's about 50/50 at best, but these are data for Linux in
> >  > >  > general) and b) impolite to the rest of us.
> >  > >
> >  > >  I read recently that RH surveyed its Enterprise users and was amazed to find
> >  > >  that around 50% did use KDE, so you certainly can't assume that "most of us"
> >  > >  are using gnome.
> >  > >
> >  > >  Anne
> >  > >
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> >  > Do you have data also for Fedora? otherwise you use stats for potatoes
> >  > for selling oranges :-).
> >  > I don't have any stats (and I don't mind about them). My goal is to
> >  > have running systems and I am happy that Andrew helped me to solve the
> >  > problem (maybe that he assumed Gnome as my desktop as we have been in
> >  > contact for a long time....since Fedora 9 was still rawhide).
> >  > And I find that Fedora (I have no idea about RH Enterprise) seems to
> >  > be going towards Gnome even at installation time (ask any new user
> >  > which desktop will choose  when installation is done: I have some
> >  > experience in helping new user to install Fedora)
> >
> >  So you agree that Fedora is a Gnome-based system that also supports KDE?
> >
> >  poc
> >
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> Patrick
> 
> I don't know whether Fedora is Gnome-based system supporting also KDE,
> as you say
> My experience (but not Anne's) is I am using Gnome, and the users I
> know are running their systems on Gnome.
> We all didn't give  a try to KDE mainly because standard graphic
> installation (in particular for newcomers) seems to be suggesting
> Gnome.
> And Gnome seems to be satisfactory.
> 
> My two (and last) cents.....

Just to wind up: I have absolutely no problem with that. My *only* point
(in the context of this thread) is that it's incorrect to assume that
everyone uses Gnome, so when people ask UI-related questions they should
make clear which desktop they're talking about. That's all.

poc

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