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

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 21:07 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> > I think this is rather overstating the case. I certainly don't think
> > (and I already wrote) that it's enough to make everyone happy, but I
> > think it actually is what some people want. Quite a lot of people
> > install Ubuntu, for instance, and then add on GNOME or KDE or something
> > as a secondary environment to play around with: they want to have the
> > 'standard product' installed, and another desktop available as a kind of
> > alternative on top of that, or they just want to make sure they have all
> > the 'standard' bits installed under/alongside their chosen desktop in
> > case anything else is expecting them (the "platform" approach).
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> You're misunderstanding me here. My point is

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*My* point is that you should make your rhetoric match your point. Two
or three of those quotations were direct rips from your previous emails
on the topic. If you don't actually mean those things, then I suggest
not writing them.
-- 
Adam Williamson
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