[sles-beta] KDE Desktop not available?

[Matthias G. Eckermann]

Hello James,

I just bounced you an E-Mail (dating 2014-02-27) written
by Jan Weber, my product management colleague responsible
for desktop; he is currently traveling and thus does not
have regular E-Mail access.

On 2014-04-23 T 17:53 -0400 James Taylor wrote:

> I find Gnome to be nearly unusable as a productivity
> interface.

This was true in the past, indeed. However, just test the
SLES 12 Beta5 "incarnation" of Gnome3.  To me personally
(also coming from KDE) it looks clean and directly usable.

> Has there been any thought about what effect that will
> have on upgrading servers with only KDE installed?

This topic is also covered in Jan's E-Mail. 

So long -
	MgE

P.S.: If anybody else missed Jan's E-Mail, I can bounce or
even resend it to this list again.

> >>> "Beddingfield, Allen" <allen at ua.edu> 4/23/2014 4:27 PM >>> 
> Hi James,
> I didn't realize you were on here!
> This one got hashed out pretty early on...  apparently the decision has been made the Gnome will be the one/only desktop for SLES/SLED in version 12.
> Allen B.
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
> 
> ________________________________________
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> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 3:21 PM
> To: sles-beta at lists.suse.com
> Subject: [sles-beta] KDE Desktop not available?
> 
> I'm just getting started testing, and when I went into the software configuration, it appears only to have Gnome available.
> I use KDE exclusively in my linux workstation environment, which is my primary desktop.
> All of my current server installations have KDE. I find Gnome pretty unusable, so I'm hoping KDE will be available by the time SLES12 is released.
> -jt
> 
> 
> 
> James Taylor
> 678-697-9420
> james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
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