Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings" by GNOME

Steven Sroka sroka.steven at gmail.com
Sun Jul 24 02:41:53 BST 2011


> Most distributions split KDE packages so if you get a pre-installed
> computer with Gnome and a few KDE applications installed, KDE System
> Settings would not be installed.
>
>You are only likely to get both System Settings pre-installed if your
>computer was shipped with both KDE and Gnome desktops. In this
>situation, I assume you would be provided with some explanation as to
>what KDE and Gnome are.

In my experience when a user has two or more DE's installed, it is
because they had one installed to begin with, then they installed a
package which pulled in an entirly different DE. For me, this is the
most frequent cause of multiple DE's. And it is not that rare,
especially for new Linux users that don't know that there are packages
sitting in the same repo's designed for one DE but not the rest.




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