Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[Marcela Mašláňová]

On 01/29/2013 01:25 PM, Dan Mashal wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, January 29, 2013, Marcela Mašláňová wrote:
>
>     On 01/27/2013 03:53 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
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>         = 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
>
>
Dan, voting about DE of choice is one thing. Doing the work is 
something different. I was waiting for reply from the one who wants to 
work on the change, not from you ;-)

Marcela