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

Dariusz J. Garbowski thuforuk at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Mar 25 08:21:39 UTC 2014


On 25/03/14 03:00 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 17:14 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> Saying that "nobody" wants this, it's "madness", "totally wacky",
>> "almost all users are NOT going to put up with this" is going rather
>> too
>> far. I think it's entirely worth the Desktop product making this
>> possible and I suspect quite a lot of people will use it, but I don't
>> think it's sufficient grounds for downgrading the spins too far in
>> importance or dropping them.
>
> That language was probably too harsh, sorry. Let's try again: I think a
> large (or huge) subset of users will be dissatisfied with the procedure
> for installing alternate desktops through GNOME Software, and will opt
> to not install Workstation at all. I don't think this will be a surprise
> to anybody.
>
> As long as we still have spins, it's not really a big deal.

The question this brings up then is: what's the point of Workstation then?
(We have come full circle back to this question...)

Regards,
Dariusz


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