https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366561
--- Comment #14 from piedro <piedro.kul...@googlemail.com> --- @Rex Dieter: That is true and I launched the same discussion with the Gnome community... The choice of DEs is one of the biggest visible and appealing advantages for new linux users (this is my experience but also see the number of posts about choice of distribution/DEs within the communities...). For the spread of linux desktops it is very important imho that it is possible to install and test different desktop environments alongside without any hidden unwanted interactions or disturbances. I advocate this for more than 5 years now: do not let any DE touch the user preferences (default applications, mime types, background services etc.) of any other DE but the experience atm is still discouraging to new users: New user interested in linux (mostly frustrated with windows) wants to check out linux. Installs a distribution and after a quick look installs different DEs alongside planing to decide which one to run after testing the different environments for his or her use case. The initial experience isn't great and looking for answers gets you comments like above "why don't you copy the config files and adjust them to your liking... or just crash a process". Still to this day clicking on a desktop symbol in GNOME suddenly starts dolphin for some reason, a few files within KDE open with gnome apps, Tracker is slowing down KDE but the new user can't find any information on it in KDE docs (obviously!), saving a file in firefox on KDE might open the file picker dialog of nautilus... well, you get the point... In the end the experience with the shiny and brand new linux system isn't promising at all unless you start solving many little problems by deep diving into configuration files, tricks and workarounds... Most new users I had to work with felt discouraged and thought the barrier of entry is too high - it doesn't help to tell them that many problems only arose because of interacting multiple DEs - it's this first impression that counts... Clean concepts and strict separation of DE experiences are important and have more implications than people might think on first glance. BTW I filed the bug with a few other KDE projects, asking to change the entries in the *.desktop files" to prevent auto starting with other DEs - it seems there has been no problems to change it and it is fixed now! thx for reading, p. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
