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Members of the OpenSUSE community are rallying behind a suggestion to make KDE the default desktop environment for the distribution.

The suggestion was made on the community's feature request service OpenFATE , which has voting capabilities, and is the most popular request by a distance.

OpenSUSE is a community GNU/Linux distribution begun by Novell, the company that signed a patent licensing deal with Microsoft in November 2006.

At present, the default desktop environment for OpenSUSE is GNOME; one of the co-founders of GNOME, Miguel de Icaza, is a vice-president at Novell.

Novell manufactures and sells the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop distribution as well; GNOME is again the default desktop environment.

Before SUSE, a German company, was bought by Novell in 2005, KDE was the default desktop environment. After it became the possession of an American company, the default was changed to GNOME.

However, despite GNOME being the default, last year's user survey shows that more than two-thirds of OpenSUSE users use KDE as their default desktop.

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