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

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> Christoph Wickert (christoph.wickert at googlemail.com) said:
>>       * Removal of the notification area which and the resulting API
>>         changes in libnotify 0.7.0 breaks all other desktop bug
>>         gnome-shell.
>
> You could certainly package libnotify06 if you really want; it shouldn't
> be that complicated.
>
>>       * Change from Nodoka to Clearlooks. Many people objected, after
>>         FPL spoke up the GNOME SIG promised to revisit the decision and
>>         keep us informed. This did not happen.
>>       * Black notifications that looked like a Ubuntu ripp-of. Again
>>         many people objected, but again GNOME SIG did not care.
>
> This is in the realm of 'upstream design decisions should be arbitrarily
> decided, debated, and reverted via Fedora'. I'm not sure that's a
> generally good tack to take.

Agreed with the upstream bit but the upstream website says that its
suppose to be an open standard for all desktops and aims to move to
freedesktop. If the upstream doesn't care about support of the other
desktops maybe they should just abandon the charades and move to
gnome.org.

Peter