The vision for the Fedora Workstation

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 08:57 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote:

> It was a terrible example, but he's really just saying "do not patch
> GNOME unless truly necessary." I absolutely agree: a big part of what
> makes Fedora arguably the #1 GNOME distro is that it rarely patches
> GNOME (with the exception of fixes that are first committed upstream)
> and almost never changes default settings. Arch and openSUSE follow the
> same policy, and that's why they're often recommended as well. Other
> distros start by adding minimize buttons, or desktop icons... I lose
> interest in those distros real fast.

You are totally right. Thanks for finding the agreeable statement in
this thread: We don't want to diverge from upstream needlessly, that
should be very clear.