Does Fedora want to expel KDE from its offerings?

[Dhaval Anjaria]

>
> Matthew Miller wrote:
> > I'm happy to have an inclusive Fedora.
>
> The problem is that the way the new getfedora page fails to offer KDE is
> NOT
> inclusive:
> * The only 2 links to the Spins page containing it are:
>   - in a plain text paragraph that appears below the unscrolled screen even
>     with a resolution of (unusually high in these wide-screen days)
>     1028×1024, and
>   - a mention in the site map in the page footer even below and even
> smaller
>     that doesn't really count.
> * There is also no mention of what can be expected on the Spins page, in
>   particular that KDE is one of the Spins offered.
> * Nor is it made clear that "Workstation" is GNOME-only.
> The page retains all the bad properties of the previous get-fedora (as
> opposed to get-fedora-all, which should always have been the default, but
> was instead killed entirely) page and makes the situation even worse.
>
> Nor is the decision by the EMEA Ambassadors to replace the Multi-Desktop
> DVDs with "Workstation"-only ones
> (https://eischmann.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/getting-ready-for-fedora-21/)
> inclusive.
>
>
I agree here, I think the removal of the all purpose Fedora DVD is a
terrible idea. I've sold a lot of people on Fedora simply because of the
DVD. The options it gives you comes in very handy in the long run and its
removal does indicate a bias towards GNOME in Fedora.
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