Underlying DE for the Workstation product

[Christian Schaller]

It wouldn't be blocking, just like we wouldn't be blocking on any other piece of available software not working for a given release. 

Christian



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bastien Nocera" <bnocera at redhat.com>
> To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 2:25:53 PM
> Subject: Re: Underlying DE for the Workstation product
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > 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.
> 
> I think creating a UI for this isn't one bit useful. It would probably be
> better served
> by separate spins (which joins up with the discussions currently on
> fedora-devel).
> 
> I mean, where would we stop for this? Allow changing the display manager from
> the UI?
> Making sure that those desktops can actually work with Wayland when GNOME and
> gdm
> switches to that?
> 
> It would severely limit the changes we can make to the workstation product,
> having it
> block on the non-primary desktops, a current problem we're trying to solve.
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