Does Fedora want to expel KDE from its offerings?

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 01:17:59PM -0500, Temlakos wrote:
> With the F21 release, they grudgingly let you upgrade with the
> "nonproduct" option.

I think you're projecting. Command line options do not hold grudges.

> But what happens with F22? Will they Shanghai all us KDE users and
> force us to switch to GNOME, or else get out of the Fedora
> community?

No. Why on earth would we want either of those things?

> Where is the option to specify KDE as a Product?

See:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora.next#What_makes_a_.22product.22.3F

and, older, 

http://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-present-and-future-a-fedora-next-2014-update-part-ii-whats-happening/

As for upgrading, there's no particular _reason_ to need a KDE-specific
option at this point, but if in the future the KDE SIG would like to
increase differentiation from the defaults in a way that would make it
useful, an option could be added.


> I chose KDE for a reason: GNOME is just plain too confusing when it
> comes to "switching a user." For that reason, and a whole host of
> pleasant discoveries of how well KDE replicates another environment
> with which I am familiar, I chose KDE beginning with F12. And I
> never looked back.

Cool. KDE is great, the Fedora KDE community is awesome, and the Fedora
KDE spin is top-notch.

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader