No subject

of KDE SIG did not support it - it's mainly about resources. And not
only packaging ones, also development (to make sure desktop works on
top of our base system layer - and you know, Fedora is often first)
but documentation (yeah, someone has to write documentation), artwork
and all other teams I forgot to mention (sorry ;-).

Btw. Board is trying to find the way how to avoid that strict=20
"something is default" - do you know based on this definition Compiz
should be part of our default offering [1]?

And the last thing - GNOME is coming with so called "classic" UI -
see GNOME 3.8 feature page (I announced a few minutes ago) [2].

"Fallback mode is going away in 3.8. Instead, there will be a set of
supported extensions that is grouped together in a 'classic' mode,
which provides a more GNOME 2-like user experience"

Same tries Cinnamon but as a fork. Make your own conclusion ;-)

Jaroslav

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Default_offering
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome3.8

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> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Jaroslav Reznik < jreznik at redhat.com
> > wrote:
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> =3D Features/Cinnamon as Default Desktop =3D
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Cinnamon_as_Default_Desktop
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> Feature owner(s): Eric Smith < eric at brouhaha.com >
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> This feature proposes that Fedora switch the default desktop
> interface from
> Gnome 3 to Cinnamon. Cinnamon provides a desktop interface that is
> more
> familiar to Windows and Gnome 2 users than the standard Gnome Shell
> interface,
> while being built from Gnome 3 components.
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> =3D=3D Detailed description =3D=3D
> The Gnome 3 interface is substantially different that the traditional
> desktop
> interfaces on both Linux and Windows. While it is good that there is
> research
> into new user interface concepts, many users prefer to have a
> traditional
> interface that they are accustomed to. Unfortunately it is difficult
> or
> impossible to assess what fraction of the user base prefers Gnome
> Shell vs. a
> more traditional interface. I'm not trying to start (or continue) a
> flame war
> here, so I won't state any of my own criticisms of Gnome Shell here,
> but I
> will observe that a number of very high profile people in the Linux
> community,
> such as Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox, have publicly announce that due
> to
> problems with Gnome Shell they are switching to a different desktop
> and/or
> Linux distribution.
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> I submit the proposition that it is easier for a user doing a new
> Fedora
> install to start with a traditional desktop, and switch to the Gnome
> Shell if
> they prefer that, than to start with Gnome Shell and switch to a
> traditional
> desktop.
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> The Cinnamon desktop provides a traditional desktop while being based
> on the
> latest Gnome and GTK components, so it seems like a better candidate
> for a
> default desktop than MATE, which is based on older components.
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