[Mageia-discuss] Poll: Which Desktop Environment will you be using on Mageia?

Thu Mar 24 16:45:54 CET 2011

2011/3/24 Tux99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org>:
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+> Quote: Oliver Burger wrote on Thu, 24 March 2011 15:54
+>
+>> So why take the time and effort to create and manage such a poll?
+>
+> The time and effort to set up the poll was next to zero, if you have ever
+> set up a poll in any forum you would know how easy it is.
+
+Even the 20 seconds I'd need to create a poll in phpbb3 would be too
+much time wasted.
+
+> So worst case too few people vote and the results will be useless, best
+> case enough people vote to give a representative overview of user
+> preferences.
+
+Hmm, what do you mean by "representative"?
+For those who are looking into your forum? may be.
+For Mageia users? Probably not.
+For Linux users? Definitely not.
+
+> Personally I think it's interesting to see how popular the less popular DEs
+> are among Mageia users, it's obvious that KDE4 will get the most votes, but
+> it's the votes for the other DEs that are more interesting.
+
+That's no news.
+
+> If the poll gets enough votes to be representative then results could for
+> example be used to decide which alternative DEs should get a (unofficial)
+> Live CD release (apart from KDE4 and Gnome).
+
+The criteria to release a special LiveCD edition with one DE is: do we
+have a group who are motivated to do that. Nothing more.
+
+This is a free system and everybody can spend his time on anything he
+likes, so, if you think it's worth the time to have the zillionth
+desktop poll, good. :) But don't expect it to be worth anything and
+don't expect it to influence anything.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+