Underlying DE for the Workstation product

[Christian Schaller]

That is a good question and there is always the risk of 'overloading' the app with to many purposes.
That said in the next version there will be support for installing fonts, codecs and ibus methods, so
there is some precedence for installing things that is technically not an 'application'.

Hopefully some of the designers can chime in on this, I mean we could also considering putting this functionality
somewhere else than the application installer if the designers thinks that is a better option.

Christian



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rui Tiago Cação Matos" <tiagomatos at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 11:00:09 AM
> Subject: Re: Underlying DE for the Workstation product
> 
> On 31 January 2014 10:47, Christian Schaller <cschalle at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Through the Software installer there will be other options available for
> > install, like KDE. These will be installed alongside the default package
> > set. We will not have a replace default option, just an add one, in order
> > to ensure that the default package set can be targeted by 3rd parties.
> 
> This is an interesting one. Do we want an application installer
> (that's my view of what gnome-software is) advertising and enabling
> users to install something like a totally different desktop
> environment?
> 
> Rui
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