On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@chello.at> wrote:

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> - Cinnamon started out as 'using GNOME components', but it is [now] a full
> fork of mutter, gnome-shell and nautilus, at least, and bug-fixes are not
> going either way...

Those are applications which form the workspace, not random "components".
I'm fairly sure that when they speak about reusing GNOME components, they
really mean the libraries and the standalone applications, not the
workspace.

(For those familiar with KDE, what they're forking is only the GNOME
equivalent of kde-workspace and not all the other components of GNOME.)

Kevin Kofler

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I would oppose Cinnamon as a default on stability/maturity grounds. The last time I tried Cinnamon (granted this was on Ubuntu) it had a lot of problems. For example Nemo would get into fights with the default installed nautilus resulting in no desktop icons. The massive forking of underlying components could easily create problems. KDE however is a tested desktop which I would love to see as the default (or as others have proposed a "no default"). In my opinion Fedora ships the best KDE around. Although early signs seem to point to Kubuntu 13.04 really improving under Blue Systems TLC.

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