Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[Sandro Mani]

Can't we simply re-organize the fedoraproject website in such way that the
download button points to something similar to the current "More options"
page, maybe with a small description for each desktop like "easy to use" /
"feature rich and customizable" / "based on the traditional desktop" / etc
and possibly sorted by popularity, i.e. number of downloads?


On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Michał Piotrowski <mkkp4x4 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 2013/1/28 Nikos Roussos <comzeradd at fedoraproject.org>
>
>> **
>> On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 00:10 -0800, Dan Mashal wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Monday, January 28, 2013, Nikos Roussos wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 14:53 +0000, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
>> > The Gnome 3 interface is substantially different that the traditional
>> desktop
>> > interfaces on both Linux and Windows.
>>
>> At least for Windows 8, neither Cinnamon is close to its desktop
>> interface.
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> Exactly. There is no way to know that. So I see no real reason to change
>> our default desktop.
>> Even if we consider Gnome 3 as a "research" (which I don't), Fedora is
>> known to adopt innovative technologies.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Nikos Roussos
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>>
>>  Innovative.
>>
>>
>>
>>  "Innovative" or "deevolutionary", "boring", or just plain "annoying"?
>> They can all be used in different ways. What you might consider
>> "innovative" a lot of people consider annoying.
>>
>>
>> True. Or others might consider it productive. Same goes for all Desktop
>> environments. That's why I said that I see no real argument here for
>> changing our default desktop.
>>
>
> Maybe it should be something like "defaultless" desktop. Just install
> Gnome and display desktop ballot screen "Yes, we know that Gnome 3 sucks
> for 85% of population. Here you got an alternatives."
>
>
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>
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