Ubuntu KDE

[Bill Stoye]

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 08:11 -0500, Henry Keultjes wrote:
> Anyone interested in putting an UbuntuPPC version *without* Gnome and 
> *with* KDE together for use here in the USA?

Please allow those of us that enjoy Gnome, to have at least one
distribution that focuses on it; you don't represent the average user
and can't speak for them, I don't know that anyone does. There are so
many distributions that are KDE centric, you shouldn't have difficulty
finding one. 

I thought I couldn't live without K3B, instead of dragging KDE stuff in,
I'm surviving very well without it.

Also please do not pretend to represent us in the states.

I'm very pleased with Ubuntu, even with the broken stuff I need to learn
how to fix yet.

Bill


> While there may be great merit to Gnome (I am not a techy so I don't 
> know, all I have seen is Novell demo's) I know there is great merit to 
> simplifying things for the enduser, an area where I have expertise.  If 
> I am going to convince people to start using Ubuntu, throwing all kinds 
> of possibilities at them just does not make sense.  These are people 
> that will not even have heard of KDE or Gnome and they basically don't 
> care.  They want something with less complexity than the WinTel they 
> have to do three or four typical things; read and send email, surf the 
> web, write a letter and play games.
> 
> In reality, people do not use an OS, they only use applications so for 
> all practical purposes, a user could not ever know what engine is under 
> the hood and 80% of the users probably will not care.
> 
> Are we going to address that enduser market like Linspire and Xandros 
> are attempting to do but in the true Debian spirit with a free version 
> of Ubuntu?
> 
> And . . . just in case, the reason for starting Gnome, the Qt license, 
> has long been resolved.  The total integration of KDE and Qt has some 
> inherent strengths for simplifying the end user experience and that's 
> were I believe we need to go.
> 
> We are all Linux missionaries of sorts but as long as we, as 
> missionaries,  produce only missionaries we are missing the objective of 
> saving the souls of all those WinTel sinners.
> 
> Henry Keultjes
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