What will happen to XFCE, LXDE, Mate, Cinnemon in Fedora.Next

[Kevin Kofler]

Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> The most common user case would to install a spin with DE you want to use.
> I dont think it matter much if Gnome software support installation of
> evironments.
> most other DE spins uses LightDM, so if you want a more lightweight DE,
> you don't
> install the Gnome Desktop first and then install ex. XCFE.

Yeah, this idea of having to install GNOME first to be able to install the 
desktop you actually want is totally wacky, and if that is really what we 
recommend to our users, they will run to other distributions (that actually 
support the desktop environment they care about with a dedicated installable 
live image) in droves. Really, almost all users are NOT going to put up with 
this. You need to be really determined to want to run Fedora to jump through 
such ridiculous hoops, most people will just look elsewhere.

And this is really true independently of the desktop environment we are 
talking about (except maybe things such as WM-only setups whose users are 
used to tweaking things by hand anyway).

        Kevin Kofler