Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

Michał Piotrowski mkkp4x4 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 11:08:19 UTC 2013


2013/1/28 Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
> Le lundi 28 janvier 2013 à 09:56 +0100, Michał Piotrowski a écrit :
>>
>> Maybe it should be something like "defaultless" desktop. Just install
>> Gnome and display desktop ballot screen "Yes, we know that Gnome 3
>> sucks for 85% of population. Here you got an alternatives."
>
> For one, if there is 85% of a group that do not use a software, that
> doesn't mean it sucks for them. I do not use KDE, I do not consider it
> to sucks. You cannot use 2 DE at the same time, so obviously, you have
> to chose at a moment.
>
> Personally, I do not think that's a great idea from a UI point of view
> to ask to new users ( cause the non new users are aware they can install
> something else, so the ballot would be useless for them, and maybe even
> annoying in the long run )

Personally, I have never, ever used ballot screen on Windows. But I'm
always glad when I see it - because of this peoples know that there
are alternatives :)

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Michal

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