KDE integration/status for Workstation

[Christian Schaller]

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> From: "Josh Boyer" <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
> To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 3:20:44 PM
> Subject: Re: KDE integration/status for Workstation
> 
> 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:
> >>
> >> 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...
> >>
> >
> > 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

At the risk of misrepresenting Stephen I think what he means, and what I agree
with is that we declare that KDE is blocking as in 'it should work' before we do
a given release, but it is optional to install for the end user.

Christian