[Ambassadors] Re: [Fedora-marketing-list] XFCE as third official desktop?
Heiko Adams wrote:
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Hi,
some of my friends and colleges are currently using xubuntu but they
want to move to fedora and so they asked me why Fedora only
provides GNOME and KDE but not XFCE as desktops during the installation.
I told them that XFCE can be installed from fedora-extras repository
after installation.
So now they've moved to Fedora but they are a little bit unhappy
because they had to install GNOME/KDE -> install XFCE from
fedora-extras -> remove GNOME/KDE to get a XFCE Fedora and in their
eyes that's circuitous.
So they asked for asking if there would be a chance to move XFCE to
Fedora Core in Fedora Core 7 or later.
GNOME and KDE are not anymore official in Fedora than XFCE is. Fedora
Core 6 installer includes the ability to install applications from
Fedora Extras repository. So the end users would be able to do a network
based installation and select XFCE as default. This has been made
relatively easy.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tours/FedoraCore6/005_Install_Add_Repository
We are also discussing some changes in the release strategy including
availability of extras packages in media. So essentially eliminating any
practical differences between these repositories at the end user level
potentially as close as the next release. I guess that should satisfy
your friends and fans of other alternative window managers included in
Fedora Extras.
Rahul