On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 20:17, Trae McCombs wrote: > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 14:40, Philip Wyett wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 19:18, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 19:06, Philip Wyett wrote: > > > > 4. Removal of KDE. Ok, this ain't likely, but I'd personally like to > > > > see it go in favour of making the distro richer tool wise and still 3 > > > > binary CD's. > > > > > > Why not GNOME? I prefer KDE. > > > Just seriously, I think both *must* be included. > > > > > > > Well... other than I prefer Gnome, there is no reason at all why Gnome > > should not be the one to go. My real point is I think we are reaching a > > point of critical mass (or soon will) with the larger Window Managers, > > their apps and for the sake of distro size and to allow additional much > > needed tools in - one may have to go. > > I know I'm going to get flamed for this one... But here goes. > > 1st idea: Make Fedora strictly GNOME based. > To reduce development effort down to one Window manager, making the choice between the big two would be the best solution IMHO. /me is now being real careful not to say which one! > 2nd idea: Have two different ISO bases for GNOME or KDE > I'm getting a headache just thinking about this one. > 3rd idea: Split Window Managers / Desktop enviorments out to a disc3. > Then, you simply download: ISO 1 and 2, and then make disc3 WM/DE > dependent. You could download: fedora_core-disc3-KDE.iso or > fedora-core-disc3-GNOME.iso > Hmm... An idea certainly. Soon to be squashed by an RH employee soon I expect! > Again, please don't read this in as KDE bashing, I think KDE is pretty > nifty myself. I've used it for years at a time. I simply think > worrying about different desktops, divides an effort to truly move > forward. > I also use KDE with Fedora and other distro's. A concern for me is lots of things in distro's all doing the same or similar things, this is why I brought this up. Yup, I know we get into that old nugget of choice and getting the balance right for everyone is virtually impossible <sigh>. Regards Philip Wyett -- Email: philip wyett net Website: http://www.wyett.net Public key: http://www.wyett.net/gpg/public_key.txt --
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