Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[Dan Mashal]

On Tuesday, January 29, 2013, Dan Mashal wrote:

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> On Monday, January 28, 2013, Máirín Duffy wrote:
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>> On 01/28/2013 02:06 AM, Dan Mashal wrote:
>> > You don't see the point of MATE or Cinnamon? How long did you play with
>> > them 5 minutes?
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>> Do you remember the GNOME 1.x => 2.x transition? Similarly to how there
>> are forks of GNOME now to 'keep the GNOME 2 candle burning,' there were
>> forks of GNOME 1.x to 'keep the GNOME 1 candle burning.'
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>> Do you remember what they were called? I didn't; I had to look 'em up.
>> Do you ever wonder what happened to them? Dead projects nobody seems to
>> remember. Do we really want to switch to a desktop that history has
>> shown is likely to become a dead project in a few years?
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>> http://osdir.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1295
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>> It also doesn't seem smart to switch from a desktop on the basis that
>> Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox - kernel developers, not UI experts or even
>> typical desktop users by any means - don't like it. I think switching
>> the desktop that has been our default for over 10 years and 18 releases
>> requires just a bit more research and reason than that.
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>> ~m
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> Mizmo*
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