GNOME as the default desktop (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Minutes - 2010-12-06)

[Máirín Duffy]

On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 09:43 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Not only that, the request was for the Desktop spin, and only the
> Desktop spin.  The other spins would be able to use the wallpaper they
> wanted.  This seems to fall much more in line with what you are asking,
> which is to let the sigs controlling the spins have decision power over
> what goes into them.

To be fair the Desktop spin isn't a 'spin' in the same sense. E.g. it is
not listed on http://spins.fedoraproject.org and it is the default spin
that is meant to be synonymous with 'Fedora' for new users as per the
new website design meant to target our recently expanded target user
base [1]. With that prominence comes a lot more responsibility towards
the Fedora brand than other spins, unfortunately in the context of this
issue.

In other words, if the KDE SIG or LXDE or XFCE came to the design team
and requested to use the upstream wallpaper for their DE instead of the
Fedora one, I strongly believe it would much less of an issue. As it is
some of the functional spins (Security Spin comes to mind) use custom
wallpapers already - no issue there, the design team designed it for
them.

~m

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_base