Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[Michał Piotrowski]

2013/1/28 Sandro Mani <manisandro at gmail.com>

> 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?
>

+1


>
>
> 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.
>>>
>>>
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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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>> Michal
>>
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