KDE integration/status for Workstation

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Wed Mar 5 14:24:29 UTC 2014


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On 03/05/2014 09:20 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Stephen Gallagher
> <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On 03/04/2014 09:20 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> This with my Personal Opinion hat on, not representing QA:
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure all/most people who actually want to use Fedora
>>> KDE are likely to be sold on doing it by downloading what they
>>> will see as 'GNOME', installing that, and then installing KDE
>>> on top of it. I think this will be fine for some folks, but
>>> there'll be a significant constituency which just wants a KDE
>>> image.
>>> 
>>> In fact we might be creating a bit of a problem, because I can
>>> see both "want KDE as an alternative desktop on top of the
>>> Workstation product" and "just want Fedora KDE" as two entirely
>>> legitimate and viable constituencies, which sort of means we've
>>> just created a bunch of extra work for ourselves. I'm not sure
>>> I see a clever magical solution to that, though. Engage brain
>>> cells...
>>> 
>> 
>> I'd suggest that for the Fedora Workstation, we declare that KDE
>> is release-blocking *as an optional component atop the
>> Workstation*.
> 
> Please explain this further.  Having an optional component be
> release blocking is making my head hurt.

What I mean is that if I boot the live media, install from it and
select "KDE" during that install process, then having a usable system
after the post-install reboot is blocking.

Is that more clear?

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