Which Desktop Environment Do you use in openSUSE?
KDE, Gnome, XFCE, LXDE or other DEs?
this poll is related to following thread:
On 08/29/2012 10:16 AM, ilAli wrote:
> Which Desktop Environment Do you use in openSUSE?
> KDE, Gnome, XFCE, LXDE or other DEs?
the poll only allows one answer…since i use more than one DE i
selected “Other”…
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**but you can select more than one option in this poll. **
I checked only KDE in the poll, since that’s what I mainly use.
I actually use all of those listed, including icewm (the “icewm-default” version, not the “lite” version that is normally installed).
I always install KDE, Gnome, XFCE, LXDE and icewm-default. I like to experiment.
OK, but if it is allowed to you to install and use only one DE, which one will you select?
On 08/29/2012 01:26 PM, ilAli wrote:
> OK, but if it is allowed to you to install and use only one DE, which
> one will you select?
that is a different poll than the one you started…
and i didn’t see an instruction that i could select more than one, or
all of those offered–so, i assummed “Other” was my only option…
maybe you need to poll: If you could only have one desktop environment,
which would it be? and then list ALL of them and allow only one to be
selected.
many are listed here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment (like KDE,
GNOME, Windows 7, Windows 8, OSX, OS/2, etc etc etc etc…)
but, if you want to be more restrictive, maybe you want to poll: If you
could only have one operating system (Linux), and one windowing server
(X), and only one desktop environment, which would it be?
for that poll you should include all those named here, at least (Unity
and Cinnamon are not listed, for example):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_Window_System_desktop_environments
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dd
If you look at under the poll window, you will see this sentence:** “Multiple Choice Poll”** that means you can use more than one option. also when you wanted to select an option, you could saw An Squar instead of a Circle. Squars are for multiple choice polls and Circles are for only one choice polls.
i’m not allowed to vote again (so i can change my choice from just “Other”!)
On 08/29/2012 03:56 PM, ilAli wrote:
> see this sentence:“Multiple Choice Poll”
i completely missed seeing it!
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dd
It would be a toss-up between Fedora and Slackware:P
Sure, I know that’s not the answer that you wanted. When I first tried suse (that was 10.1), I went with Gnome. I currently use KDE, as a result of experimenting with various desktops. I want that ability to experiment.
If opensuse removes the ability to install multiple desktops, then I will have to find a more congenial distro.
Am 29.08.2012 16:56, schrieb nrickert:
> If opensuse removes the ability to install multiple desktops, then I
> will have to find a more congenial distro.
>
That almost exactly summarizes my thoughts, when openSUSE would discard
all but one desktop I would end up in the difficult choice between
Mageia, Debian and Arch Linux which all provide a choice of desktop
environments (as other distros do as well but with which I am not familiar).
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PC: oS 12.2 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.8.4 | GeForce GT 420
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.1 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.8.5 | HD 3000
eCAFE 800: oS 12.1 i586 | AMD Geode LX 800@500MHz | 512MB | KDE 3.5.10
i was talking about developers work load and their focus, i did not mean that opensuse only work with kde, i mean developers only try to introduce opensuse with kde and anyone that like other DEs, he/she could use suse studio.
maybe with this appraoch openSUSE will loose some users but in other hand it will attract many other users that like this appraoch and are in search of an original KDE distro.
Am 29.08.2012 18:26, schrieb ilAli:
> maybe with this appraoch openSUSE will loose some users but in other
> hand it will attract many other users that like this appraoch and are
> in search of an original KDE distro.
>
You miss the point, openSUSE will not only loose users it will loose the
developers. The developers now working on Gnome, LXDE … will not
switch to focus on working on KDE, they will continue to work on Gnome
and so on but no longer for the openSUSE project.
If you do not believe me I kindly advise you to ask them yourself or
simply follow the discussions on the mailing lists, then you get the
picture.
A community distro is made by the volunteer work of people and what
people volunteer to work on depends on their interests and not on what
other people want them to do, they are no employees who you can force to
do something.
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PC: oS 12.2 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.8.4 | GeForce GT 420
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.1 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.8.5 | HD 3000
eCAFE 800: oS 12.1 i586 | AMD Geode LX 800@500MHz | 512MB | KDE 3.5.10
you are right, i have missed this point.
thanks.
I have always used Gnome and it is amazing what developers achieved since the first release of Gnome. The same goes for KDE it is amazing too - SuSE/openSUSE was always a distro which offered both or even more DE’s - it’s all about choices and the taste of it’s users. I do not want to start a distro bashing but I’m aware of how many users left Ubuntu after the first release of Unity and went somewhere else - not everybody like to have only one DE - some users prefer KDE over Gnome or vice versa and I think if there will be only one DE installed many users/developers will leave this project which is there right as it is their volunteer time and that will be bad for the whole openSUSE project. However for SLED it will be no problem to have only one DE as on RedHat you get Gnome only and that’s fine as I think there are much more Gnome users as KDE users.
It’s a bit more complicated for me than just selecting one desktop. For my own laptop I use KDE, but since I run a number of virtual machines for various dev stuff etc. I need a fast lightweight display manager, i.e. LXDM so I think the devs should focus on KDE, Gnome and LXDE.
THAT only appears when viewing the results, not before you vote.
OK, And what about the rest: “also when you want to select an option, you can see a Square instead of a Circle to tick. Squares are for multiple choice polls and Circles are for only one choice polls.” it is almost a common rule all over the internet.
What makes you think that if openSUSE would focus on KDE desktop only, then the KDE implementation would be better? That’s not how it works - on the contrary! I set up KDE and help solve KDE problems every day, but I almost never use it myself - because I personally prefer other desktops. If a distro doesn’t let me install the desktops I need - or make it more complicated by not including them in official repos - I would most likely stop installing and using it. That’s the reason why I don’t install Mandriva anymore.