[Mageia-discuss] Suggestions

Mon Oct 25 17:15:17 CEST 2010

Wayne Sallee a écrit :
+>
+> Oliver Burger wrote on 10/23/2010 11:39 AM:
+>> Wayne Sallee<Wayne at waynesallee.com>  schrieb am 2010-10-23
+>>> I think that everyone with a decent computer, should install both 
+>>> Gnome,
+>>> and KDE.
+>> Why?
+>>
+>> I normally don't need more then one DE on my system. I do install 
+>> applications
+>> from both DEs (kmail, korganizer,... from KDE, pidgin, gimp,... from 
+>> GNOME)
+>> but why should I install more than that?
+>>
+>> Oliver
+>>
+> It gives a second desktop to fall back on, and guarantees all 
+> dependencies for KDE or GNOME aps, provides a fall back method to 
+> adjust setting such as font and such for desktop aps used in the other 
+> desktop, and gives the newbe the ease of switching to the other 
+> desktop until they decide which one they like. And installing both 
+> desktops is an easy way to install all standard aps for both desktops, 
+> and that new standard apps for the unused desktop is installed with 
+> desktop updates, so that it's there if you need it. Just like I like 
+> to have several internet browsers even though I rarely use the others. 
+> If one is giving you trouble, you can try the other.
+>
+> Wayne Sallee
+> Wayne at WayneSallee.com
+
+It's not clear your definition of "decent" ...  do you mean a computer 
+with almost unlimited disk space, multicore 64-bit processor ... ?
+
+And why not just install everything in all the repositories.
+One never knows when one might need another application ...
+and besides, it's so much fun playing with all sorts of different 
+applications, learning and configuring all sorts of different desktops ...
+
+However, most users want to do just that ... *use* their computer, to do 
+something.
+They don't want tons of clutter on their disk to maintain.  They don't 
+necessarily want to learn the particularities of more than one major 
+desktop.
+Or to learn 47 different applications to do essentially the same thing.
+
+Personally, I use Gnome, and have adapted to its few shortcomings, in 
+preference to those of KDE.  Unfortunately KDE insists on installing 
+many applications which, in addition to not working very well, clutter 
+my system, including the menu.
+But others prefer KDE over Gnome, and some like yourself prefer both.
+If a minimal install of KDE were available, maybe installing both KDE 
+and Gnome by default might make sense.
+But it seems to me that a simpler environment would be advantageous for 
+newer users.
+
+- André
+