[suse-sles-e] SLES10 - why they made GNOME default and why they killed YOU?

From: Alexei_Roudnev (Alexei_Roudnev_at_exigengroup.com)
Date: Sun Jul 09 2006 - 19:43:28 CEST 

Message-ID: <052201c6a37f$2fabcc40$6401a8c0@alexh>
From: "Alexei_Roudnev" <Alexei_Roudnev@exigengroup.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 10:43:28 -0700
Subject: [suse-sles-e] SLES10 - why they made GNOME default and why they killed YOU?

I test-run SLES10 RC on a few hardware, and , except mystery on DELL
workstations (when it caused CD to read wrong data)
it works well.

But tests showed that Novell made GNOME default desktop for the server. IT
is terrible, Gnome is so far behind KDE in
convenience that it looks as we jumped back from car to the horse carriage.

(I can explain why I have such impression; in very short, what I lost
instantly with their new desktop service are:
- no GUI based Russian keyboard setting;
- no multiple pages on the screen by default;
- no focus control such as _don't raise window when you focus on it_ - very
important feature allowing to do many things in Linux;
... and so so on...)

I don't want to open religious war here, but KDE was always distinctive
feature of SuSe, so why they make new customers to think that it is now _one
more primitive Linux of the world_? Why don't at least ask user on
installation, what he want - fast and effective but primitive GNOME, or
bigger but richer KDE?

Looks as SuSe is about to lost one of it's most important faces, as a result
of Novell political games.

Another question is about updates. Update system uses another mechanism, not
_you_ now. Does it mean that we can junk our update infrastructure, with
running YOU server and easy to use updates? I can understand that Novell
changed it to have better control over installations (good idea, at least
for them) and new system should be better for overall support, but may be I
just did not find old system in place? (Here it is question, not a complain;
but GNOME default was really a terrible change).

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