Fedora Desktop vs. Fedora Desktop {GNOME,KDE} (was: Re: Fedora 7)

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Fri Jan 5 06:55:17 UTC 2007


On 04.01.2007 22:22, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
>> Yes, Fedora Desktop and Fedora Server will probably be the official Fedora 
>> Project spins of Fedora.  Fedora KDE is the proof of concept, perhaps widely 
>> used "community contributed" spin of Fedora.  That's why (IMHO) its named 
>> specifically with "KDE" whereas the official spin is just "Desktop".  If you 
>> don't know what "KDE" or "GNOME" is, you wouldn't know to choose it.  Desktop 
>> is a good generic name that is understandable.  However if you already know 
>> and prefer KDE, you know to get the KDE spin.
> It would be consistent to have something like
> Fedora Desktop (GNOME edition) and
> Fedora Desktop (KDE edition)
> It's confusing and discriminatory to call one of the spins as the 
> desktop when you have more (which is likely to increase) than one 
> desktop oriented spins.

+1 from me to this as a long term Gnome user that's not much interested 
in KDE; but I know others are.

This issue brings up a interesting question: Which board has the power 
to influence and adjust this particular naming scheme in our new 
"merged" world? FESCo or the Fedora Board?

CU
thl




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