Does Fedora want to expel KDE from its offerings?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Dec 13 21:03:14 UTC 2014


On Sat, 2014-12-13 at 19:29 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 13.12.2014 um 19:24 schrieb Sudhir Khanger:
> > There is no point in adding another word to the name. Reminds me of how badly
> > named Android phones are. We don't want to keep explaining difference between
> > Showcases, flavors and Spins.
> >
> > Upstream wants to use KDE for community and Plasma for desktop so that's what
> > we should use. GNOME and KDE are the only two release blocking desktop
> > environments and I would love to see following.
> >
> > Fedora Workstation
> > Fedora Plasma
> > Fedora Server
> > Fedora Cloud
> 
> guess what "Plasma" says for a ordinary, new Linux user: nothing
> 
> calling one "Workstation" and the other "Plasma" is braindead
> *both* are workstations with just a different DE

For once I agree with Reindl. I don't even understand what Plasma is and
I've been an exclusively KDE user since version 3.

poc



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