Re: Underlying DE for the Fedora Workstation product
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 15:27:41 -0500, you wrote:
On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 12:08 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> The GNOME we're trying to build has its own vision, and it's trying to
> become its own well-defined product: The number-one free software
> operating system.
Not it's not. This means that they have a single dedicated desktop
experience and that the community is allowed to use those components but
there isn't a formal mechanism to standardize to a common core. It also
excludes any potential requirements for a separate desktop environment
for commercial vendors. If you actually read my Proposal you would
realize that.
I have worked out a compromise that works for GNOME 3, GNOME 2 and the
Gnome community projects. It's called the GNOME Meta-Desktop.
All your proposal does is formalize the current GTK desktop world mess
into an official product that solves none of the problems.
You can't say your proposal provides a "single dedicated desktop
experience" while at the same time claiming to offer a GNOME 3 and
GNOME 2 experience - those 2 products have fundamentally different
design goals and experiences.
Third party developers want 1 target to aim for, and whether is is the
current mess of GNOME / Cinnamon / MATE (plus KDE) or your GNOME
Meta-Desktop the problem is not solved because there is no 1 target.