2011/11/14 Doug Laidlaw <[email protected]>: > On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 03:02:03 PM [email protected] wrote: >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:07:19 -0700 >> From: Aaron Mendo Andrade <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Subject: [Mageia-discuss] Replacing LibreOffice and Gimp by Calligra >> in Mageia 2 >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> >> Hi all, I would like to see the next version of Mageia more integrated into >> the KDE version and so it occurred to me that is a good idea instead of >> LibreOffice and The Gimp replace by Calligra for the version 2 of mageia >> by then calligra version 2.4 will ready . >> >> What do you think? >> >> Greetings!!!. >> > If Aaron wants a "solid KDE" distro, that is what Mandriva wants to be, > according to its publicity. If he can wait that long...
If somebody wants a "pure KDE" distro then he can easily replace "external" applications like LO and Gimp with their KDE equivalents. But Mageia is NOT a KDE-only distro and is not planning to become such. The installation media are filled with the most popular applications, individual wishes/requirements to be cared for after installation. LO and Gimp are 2 of the most popular applications for almost all kind of users. I'm a KDE user from the start (KDE1 with SuSE, then Mandrake Linux) but guess what I would install first after installation? LO and Gimp (if they would be missing on the media). This may be because my priority lies on function rather than looks, so I do not care for such "ugly GTK+" issues some people may have. BTW: I do not subscribe to the Mageia more integrated into KDE" point of view. KDE is a desktop environment to be integrated into the distribution. So for me it's the other way round. -- wobo
