Because Gnome is the default desktop environment of Ubuntu, the most people use it. What can we do again that? No, I don’t think that everyone should use KDE and Kubuntu; I think we have to promote them more. at this time there is a poll at the site of the hungarian LoCo: as you can see, about 13 times more people use Ubuntu than Kubuntu. Because of that mostly they talk about Ubuntu, they write about Ubuntu, etc. How can we solve that? First, we have to help everybody who ask us for help to use Kubuntu. This seems to be easy, but unfortunately sometimes we can’t solve the problems. However, we have to write as often as we can about Kubuntu, KDE, everything related to them. Some example (sorry, all of these all hungarian:
- When the Karmic Koala released, we (the editors of the ubuntu.hu) wrote about Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu at the same time. As the most active Kubuntu user, I wrote the Kubuntu 9.10 announcement.
- I wrote many blog posts about the releases of Amarok: first, second
- Let me remind to introduct KOffice 2.1
- Don’t forget the one of the most important thing, KDE: first, second, third, fourth, fifth
- Mix of different things, like Amarok, KDE, KDevelop
And this is only the Hungarian LoCo site. Sometimes I write articles at kde.hu also, but my priority is the LoCo site. I think I wrote everything, see you later!
it seems that again we can see how bad choise it was in the first place to choose separating Gnome, KDE and XFCE to different names. They are not easy to use marketing. They just causes lots of problems. It would be wiser to just call all of them as Ubuntu and then explain the different desktop environments. It just would make it easier for end users to have a choice what to use. Almost every day we can find on ubuntu forums how people say they want to install kubuntu but they do not want to download new installation media and reinstall whole system (and vice versa for every desktop environment). First you need to explain that it is just e desktop environment what is being changed, not the Linux OS (= kernel) or the whole software system. Then they blame you how stupid it is to have ubuntu, kubuntu and other names and make things more difficult without telling it straight.
Way to late to change the name. There is already way to much brand recognition to do such a thing, plus changing the name won’t be any less confusing or any more confusing.