Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[Marcela Mašláňová]

On 01/29/2013 12:53 PM, Dan Mashal wrote:
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> 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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Please stop. This discussion stopped to be helpful ~10 emails ago and 
you are not helping to make a consensus about this topic by personal 
attacks.

Marcela