Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 14:13 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 01/29/2013 01:38 PM, Ralf Corsepius 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
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > Though I certainly would welcome Fedora to switch away from Gnome3 as 
> > default desktop, I do not see much sense in switching to Cinnamon, 
> > because Cinnamon is too similar to Gnome3.
> >
> > Instead, I'd propose Fedora to switch away from having *any* default 
> > GUI and offer Fedora users an equal choice between all different major 
> > DE Fedora ships (e.g. Gnome3, Cinnamon, MATE, KDE. xfce ...)
> 
> That's the only right and correct way forward and then this "default" 
> *DE dispute can finally be put to rest...

I mentioned this idea in my post yesterday. I don't think it's really
practical to 'not have a default', for a few reasons listed there, which
you don't seem to have addressed.
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