Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[Dan Mashal]

On Tuesday, January 29, 2013, Marcela Mašláňová wrote:

> On 01/27/2013 03:53 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
>
>> = Features/Cinnamon as Default Desktop =
>> https://fedoraproject.org/**wiki/Features/Cinnamon_as_**Default_Desktop<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Cinnamon_as_Default_Desktop>
>>
>> Feature owner(s): Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> == Detailed description ==
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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>>  Eric,
> do you have support of all teams, which will work with you? Design, QA,
> docs, releng to create spin, ...? It's not only about popularity of DE, but
> also about future support of Cinnamon in Fedora.
>
> I'm personally not interested in any gnome fork, so I'm interested only in
> stability of the default.
>
> Marcela
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I'm sure QA, releng, docs, etc will go with what the community decides.

Lets have a poll. A very public one.

On the main website. Not somebody's blog. And let's let the users decide
what they want.

I'll tell you what, last time I checked #1 spin is KDE.

Dan
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