[desktop-discuss] SuSE Enterprise Desktop 10 reviews

[Shawn Walker]

On 7/12/06, Stefan Teleman <stefan.teleman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/11/06, Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:25:44 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> > >On 7/11/06, Calum Benson <Calum.Benson at sun.com> wrote:
> > >> The benchmark is set, let's beat it :)
> > >>
> > >> http://madpenguin.org/cms/index.php/?m=show&opt=printable&id=7150
> > >>
> > >> http://www.apcstart.com/site/admin/2006/07/650/ultimate-desktop-search-suse-linux-enterprise-desktop-10-and-beagle
> > >
> > >Does this mean Sun will now offer KDE as a supported desktop, in
> > >addition to GNOME ?
> >
> > The articles linked to are all about Gnome and what Novell has done to
> > customize it for their desktop release, and how those customizations
> > make for a very polished, easy to use product.
>
> The articles are indeed focused on GNOME.
>
> However, SuSE Enterprise Desktop provides *both* GNOME and KDE, out of
> the box, and the installer does not prefer or suggest one over the
> other. The user chooses which one will be the default desktop, and
> whether or not the other one will be installed or not.

Solaris does not have to provide KDE to provide a good desktop or even
a desktop with "equivalent functionality" (which is very subjective).
I think the reasons why KDE is unlikely to ever make it in the
commercial business desktop world have been oft repeated, and I don't
need to say what they are.

This is, however, a great opportunity to continue to improve the
usability of JDS through analysis of other successful desktop
environments.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/