Re: is GNOME the future default desktop?

[Navindra Umanee <navindra@cs.mcgill.ca>]

Montreal Wed Feb 24 20:40:23 1999

Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 10:39:19AM -0800, Brimhall, GeoffreyX L wrote:
> > Could Gnome be asked to re-write the statement,
> > 
> >         "GNOME has been selected by both the Debian distribution and Red
> >         Hat Software as their desktop environment for the future."
> > 
> > to:
> > 
> >         "GNOME has been selected by both the Debian distribution and Red
> >         Hat Software as a supported desktop environment for the future."

I agree.

> wait until the KDE/Qt licensing problems are fixed before doing anything
> about it.

By the way, GNOME and KDE are not the only desktop projects.  For
example, another one is GNUStep.

> it's not important.

It may not be important to you but the main reason I sent the original
email is that the statement in question was actually being used as
fuel against KDE.  Afterall, why bother fixing KDE problems to
Debian's satisfaction if KDE's fate has already been decided?

Thanks,
Navin.