Linux Questions Desktop Environment of the Year - interesting result

[Kevin Kofler]

Genes MailLists wrote:
>   While it may make sense to make KDE the default DE for fedora - I
> suspect that this cannot happen in fedora due to pressures from the
> large number of gnome devs associated with Fedora - or could it? Should
> it?

IMHO, not only should the KDE spin become the default, but the Xfce spin 
should replace the GNOME spin (which of course needs to stop calling itself 
the "Desktop spin") on the mirrors. GNOME is no longer a major desktop! Xfce 
is now the second most popular desktop after KDE Plasma Desktop.

>   I wonder if moving Gnome shell as a tablet spin and making KDE the
> default laptop/desktop DE would have been a really smart move. Is it too
> late? Perhaps we all really want a phone DE on our 42 inch desktops with
> a touch screen that somehow doesn't cause muscle strain ...

For a tablet spin, Plasma Active makes a lot more sense than gnome-shell:
http://plasma-active.org/
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PlasmaActive

Plasma Active is actually designed for tablets, whereas the gnome-shell 
developers denied on more than one occasion that tablets were their intended 
target, even though its bizarre design happens to work out better for 
tablets than for normal computers.

        Kevin Kofler