Hi! Am Samstag, 11. August 2012 schrieb Lili-Anne Girard: > > Do you really think that XFCE is tested in the same way that GNOME > > (and Dothe same goes for Razor-QT and KDE, for instance)? I mean, > > there are > > more > > > Dothe GNOME/KDE users out there than XFCE/LXDE/Razor-QT and more > > users > > means > > > well probed software. To make a DE as a default for a distribution > > wewithout being tested intensively can give a bad impression to > > newcomers. > > There is as many (and more) Xfce users than any other desktop > environment. > > This pool started on 2011-05-02 and stopped on February 2012: > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=63626 > > Total votes : 299 > > GNOME 2 83 28% > GNOME 3 18 6% > KDE 41 14% > Unity 0 No votes > XFCE 81 27% > LXDE 6 2% > Enlightenment 3 1% > Openbox 27 9% > Other 40 13% > > > This one started on 2012-06-14: > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=80733 > > Total votes : 113 > > Gnome 2 12 11% > Gnome 3 15 13% > KDE 22 19% > XFCE 29 26% > LXDE 0 No votes > Fluxbox 3 3% > Openbox 13 12% > Mate 5 4% > Cinnamon 3 3% > Other 11 10%
Not directed at you personally but at the thread in general… So what… and in half a year it might be different again. And how representative is that? With 299 votes and then only 113 votes. So about 185 people who voted in first survey didn´t vote in the second one. So exactly what statement do these results make? I didn´t even know about the survey until now. Frankly, I don´t get it. I never ever chosen the default desktop for years. So what? Its even accessible within the boot menu of netinst. Only thing that I think might be good is to put this selection prominently into the Debian Installer itself. Just in the tasksel selection - KDE - GNOME - XFCE - LXDE - and probably some single window manager setups like awesome or so or even make an extra dialog for it. That might be a good feature wish or bug report for bugs.debian.org Anyway, this discussion on debian-user is not reaching Joey Hess who made the change or someone else of the developers _unless_ they follow this list. So aside from venting frustrating about the discussion process this does not seem to be a discussion yielding any constructive outcome. So if someone wants to complain: Do it with the people who made the decision or the people who can change it. So short question: Do you want a change? Then stop discussing it here and carry your oppinion where it really can have an effect. Or start a petition and carry the results to there. Anything constructive, anything positive about it. Yes, thats more work than complaining here, but then … do you *really* want a change? Just complaining here, where Joey Hess or other developers may not even be reading, IMHO is just venting frustration . Has its sense do, but frankly I start to be annoyed about it cause to me it seems more and more like just complaining for the sake of complaining. I feel so free to set this thread to ignore in KMail now. Thanks, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201208111009.41767.mar...@lichtvoll.de