Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[Kevin Kofler]

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> I love GNOME 3 and detest KDE 4. I've tried MATE and Cinnamon on both
> Linux Mint and Fedora and don't really see the point of either of them
> as long as GNOME 3 offers fallback mode.

Fallback mode is going away in F19, it's already gone upstream.

> When you come right down to it, nearly all Linux desktops can be
> easily customized to provide a Windows-like workflow (menu at lower
> left, panel at bottom) or a Mac-like workflow (menu at upper left,
> panel at top). All the major Linux desktops can do this. I've even
> done this with OpenBox and fbpanel.

I don't think that'd be suitable for end users at all.

> You *do* need a good terminal app - I'd pick gnome-terminal over
> konsole or lxterminal or the XFCE terminal if I had a choice but I
> could live with any of them. Xterm is even acceptable if you have a
> 3-button mouse. ;-) But other than that, an awful lot of the
> "innovation" in Linux desktops seems to me to be wasted effort.

End users are NOT terminal junkies. :-)

        Kevin Kofler