"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
The first mistake we did was trying to label end user since it's
not up
to the project in whole to decide which end user type it's target.
It's should be up to individual community SIG's to decide what user base
they are targeting and the form they will present that to the end user
in live cd or a predefined installation option be it with the latest and
greatest bits of their product or a not which may or may not be
influenced from feed backs from the micro community they have
established around the product they ship.
+1. I couldn't agree more. We really need to give more decision power to
SIGs and accept that different Fedora spins will have different target user
bases. There's no one size that fits it all.
The Fedora project in whole should give equal access to those bits
and
devote equal amount of marketing resources to promote them.
Simply allow the casual user that walks in the Fedora garden to pick
what ever fruit he chooses that grew from the labour of the community to
taste and enjoy.
Unfortunately that is not how things are being done in the Fedora garden
today instead we force one vision ( Desktop ) and with one DE ( Gnome )
which greatly overshadows all the good work that's being done in other
corners in the lcommunity like in server applications and KDE XFCE and
LXDE and willingly or unwilling hinder the growth in the micro community
around those Desktop Environment, hiding them like some rotten apples
from infested tree in a shed in the back yard.
Strong +1 there too. I've been complaining about this kind of second-class
treatment for everything not GNOME for a while.
It's going to be interesting to see if we ever reach the point
when a
end users would like to search for a certain application for a certain
task he needs to perform and the only application he's offered will be
the Gnome ones.
Yuck! That's indeed a very scary perspective! Yet I could see it happening.
:-(
Kevin Kofler