On 11 September 2017 at 14:19, Gerald B. Cox <gbcox(a)bzb.us> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 3:45 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com>
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.
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imalone
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