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From: "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg(a)gmail.com>
To: devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 10:04:29 AM
Subject: Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop
On 01/27/2013 02:53 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> = Features/Cinnamon as Default Desktop =
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Cinnamon_as_Default_Desktop
We should be moving away from having a default rather then switching
it.
Yeah, I didn't know that people still feel like there is default - If one goes to
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora there is "Desktops: KDE, Xfce, GNOME, and
others". Does it mean that KDE is the default as we listed it first :)?
Regarding "Cinnamon as Default Desktop" - how many active contributors do really
take care of Cinnamon packaging? I don't think that anything that has less than 3-4
can even be considered. Last time I checked the only options that were satisfying such
requirement were KDE and Gnome. I would be happy to be proven wrong and we gained 10+
contributors for all the various desktops we ship.
Quantity really matters in this case.
Let me give an example from my own Fedora experience as an IDE packager focused on
Eclipse. Netbeans was packaged for Fedora and only 1 guy took care of it and I even helped
for this to happen just for the sake of competition. It was a buzzword for one or two
releases in the relevant groups, people started recommending it and etc. The problems
started when the maintainer was not able to maintain it anymore for his own reasons - not
only Netbeans IDE was orphaned and removed from the distro but various other packages were
left in the wild as they started to use some of the underlying netbeans libraries and no
one stepped in to pick it up and we still have leftovers in Fedora from this times in the
form of people trying to keep what they started to use in a non-coordinated way - everyone
keeps what he needs at the level he/she needs it. Allowing such thing to happen for
something someone would call our "default" (as meaningless it is) desktop would
be a disaster.
P.S.
I've been KDE user for ~10 years but made the switch to Gnome 3 in Fedora 17 as
it's workflow is clearly allowing me to concentrate easier!
Alexander Kurtakov
JBG
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