Rahul Sundaram wrote:
I haven't seen any community poll or
feedback mechanism for what the most people would prefer as the
default.
Community != democracy. Fedora in particular is more of a
meritocratic system.
What does that mean in terms of equivalent systems like desktop
environments? Does something 'invented here' automatically assume
more merit than someone else's project? Or does the guy doing the
work of
editing the file get his choice regardless of the effect on end users?
It means that developers who are involved with the project more would
pick the choices that based on their development focus and expertise
among one of the parameters.
I'm still missing how 'development focus' as a basis for foisting a
default choice off on unsuspecting new users differs from that political
bias you denied earlier. Surely no one who plans on having more than
one subdirectory would voluntarily pick a file manager that leaves an
open window at every level if an alternative were presented in an equal
context during installation.
Fedora developers who are focusing on KDE have their own special
interest group that has weekly meetings and have their own spin of
Fedora that is available as part of the latest release.
With Fedora 7, all the tools that the project uses to go from source to
release is available publicly and you can create your own custom spins,
mix and match packages from Fedora and other sources so you aren't bound
to what the project chooses. Have fun.
Why would a new user know/care about this instead of just going back to
whatever OS they used before when they get annoyed with nautilus behavior?
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
