https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399972

--- Comment #10 from Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> ---
I agree that the frequency with which people customize their setups to use an
IOTM is not a useful metric. We could use that same data for example to propose
a return to the traditional task manager if we did ship an IOTM by default.

However, I think the question is easier to answer than all that. The fact that
the two largest and most commonly-used commercial operating systems have
shipped an IOTM equivalent by default for more than a decade is a pretty good
indicator that it's not a fatal flaw at least. Popularity doesn't necessarily
indicate quality, but it usually does indicate the lack of its inverse.
Microsoft and Apple have basically done our user acceptance testing for us.

Also, every smartphone uses some kind of IOTM for its launcher. So the result
are already in: it's just fine. We know it's not bad.

"This proposed alternative is known not to be bad" is a minimum standard of
course, and not what we would want to base the whole decision on. :) But I
think it's a useful starting point for the discussion: we already know that the
sky wouldn't fall if we shipped an IOTM by default.

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