KDE integration/status for Workstation

Josh Boyer jwboyer at fedoraproject.org
Wed Mar 5 14:20:44 UTC 2014


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 03/04/2014 09:20 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> This with my Personal Opinion hat on, not representing QA:
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>> I'm not sure all/most people who actually want to use Fedora KDE
>> are likely to be sold on doing it by downloading what they will see
>> as 'GNOME', installing that, and then installing KDE on top of it.
>> I think this will be fine for some folks, but there'll be a
>> significant constituency which just wants a KDE image.
>>
>> In fact we might be creating a bit of a problem, because I can see
>> both "want KDE as an alternative desktop on top of the Workstation
>> product" and "just want Fedora KDE" as two entirely legitimate and
>> viable constituencies, which sort of means we've just created a
>> bunch of extra work for ourselves. I'm not sure I see a clever
>> magical solution to that, though. Engage brain cells...
>>
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> I'd suggest that for the Fedora Workstation, we declare that KDE is
> release-blocking *as an optional component atop the Workstation*.

Please explain this further.  Having an optional component be release
blocking is making my head hurt.

josh


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