On 11/27/2011 07:09 PM, suvayu ali wrote:
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 00:57, Marko Vojinovic vvmarko@gmail.com wrote:
Or the default DE choice could "rotate" for each release --- XFCE for F17, LXDE for F18, KDE for F19, Gnome3 for F20, and over again, in turns. That way each DE would have equal amount of "visibility" among users, more bugs would get fixed, etc.
This is actually a very nice idea. And I believe it fits in with the goals of Fedora, forwarding the progress of FOSS. After all Gnome is not the only FOSS desktop, by far. Maybe you can suggest this on the desktop list? (is that the appropriate list?)
Be aware that a significant number of gnome devs are @ RH ... not sure what the politics is but the gap between upstream and fedora is not as great as may appear sometimes - much like systemd ... and previous calls to re-consider the default DE have met with rather a lot of silence so far ... or suggestions to file bugs, contribute patches or perhaps even become a gnome dev. Not once that I recall has the response been sure - lets make KDE the default DE ...
That saod. I'd be delighted, albeit surprised, if any progress was made on this front.