On Jan 22, 2011, at 8:11 AM, IOhannes zmölnig wrote:
On 01/22/2011 12:02 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
It was changed to work on GNOME/metacity, which is the default on Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc. So it is by far and away the most common.
iirc, gnome is only widespread in the US, whereas europe (and esp. german speaking communities) used to favour KDE.
this if course it under constant flux, but i wanted to point out that "by far and away the most common" is a very subjective and usually point of view which i strive to avoid.
fgmadrs IOhannes
Yes, this is based on my experience. According to Distrowatch http://distrowatch.com/ , these are the top 5 distros:
1 Ubuntu 2051> 2 Mint 1542> 3 Fedora 1452> 4 openSUSE 1131< 5 Debian 1109>
Of those, only openSUSE does not default to GNOME. Ubuntu is based in UK and most of the Mint team is based in Europe. From my experience teaching in Spain, France, Switzerland, and the UK, Ubuntu was the far and away the most common distro I encountered. Perhaps European Pd users don't usually use these distros but I have yet to hear from more than a handful of people who use other setups.
But really the point is that we should make the default work for the most common setup, and then enable plugins so people can taylor this setting to their own.
.hc
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