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

[Dan Mashal]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> 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).


You always make sense. But nobody listens.

Who the hell wants to install Gnome to install MATE or KDE or XFCE?

Dan