Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

Pierre-Yves Chibon pingou at pingoured.fr
Tue Jan 29 14:26:20 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 05:17:20AM -0800, Dan Mashal wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Jiri Eischmann <eischmann at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Dan Mashal píše v Út 29. 01. 2013 v 04:25 -0800:
> >> I'll tell you what, last time I checked #1 spin is KDE.
> >
> > 1. because the Desktop "spin" is not included in the counter.
> > 2. I doubt those numbers are accurate. Only 54 downloads of Xfce spin
> > for this release? I hope you understand it's completely out of the
> > reality since there have been over 200,000 direct downloads of F18. I
> > think those numbers have been in question several times. Someone even
> > suggested we'd remove them.
> >
> > Polls are not a good way to find out what the majority wants. Because
> > the subset of users that usually participate in such polls don't
> > represent the whole user base. It's just not a statistically
> > representative sample.
> >
> > BTW I've got slightly different stats:
> > http://eischmann.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/what-desktop-environments-are-czech-fedora-users-using/
> > It may not be a 100% accurate, but it's based on a survey with over 4000
> > submitted results, so it has some relevance.
> >
> > And please stop all that talk about excluding RHT employees from any
> > decisions. I think we're all equal and one big community. I spend a lot
> > of my free time working for Fedora and this really offends me.
> >
> > Jiri
> >
> 
> You think you're the only one that's been offended?
> 
> BTW your graphs do not include Sugar, MATE, Cinnamon, and others.

Just for the record, below the first graph is written:
"GNOME 2 also includes GNOME 3 Fallback, MATE."

Pierre


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