Make kde 1st class in fedora

David Nielsen david at lovesunix.net
Fri Nov 17 16:25:13 UTC 2006


fre, 17 11 2006 kl. 10:11 -0600, skrev Jeffrey C. Ollie:
> On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 17:04 +0100, David Nielsen wrote:
> > fre, 17 11 2006 kl. 16:52 +0100, skrev Arjan van de Ven:
> > > On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 06:37 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> > > 
> > > > If a new desktop is setup with kde, it must have konqueror as the browser
> > > 
> > > Firefox also isn't the gnome default browser, but still I think Fedora
> > > does the right thing to overrule BOTH desktops and give people what they
> > > want. 
> > 
> > Funny as a GNOME user, the first thing I do is replace Firefox with
> > Epiphany as it integrates better with my desktop. I strongly disagree
> > with the argument that people move to Fedora thanks to Firefox since I
> > see no hard evidence for that claim and there are advantages to be had
> > by going for maximal integration.
> > 
> > So I could definitely see why many KDE users would feel the same way
> > about Konqi. Luckily this one of those things that will naturally
> > resolve itself once Core and Extras gets merged, if the community by
> > then wants KDE to have Konqi as the default then that will happen.
> 
> This might make a good candidate for firstboot - during firstboot the
> person installing the system could choose the default apps that newly
> created users would get.

Dear heavens no.. One of the strengths of the Fedora desktop is it's
predefined standards. If you like me want a different set of
applications there's the customize now/later option during install. 

- David
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