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

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 05:09:09PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> >> I said it's "madness" and "totally wacky" to NOT HAVE THE OPTION of
>> >> installing your desktop directly, before first installing GNOME. That is
>> >> also what I said "almost all users are NOT going to put up with".
>> > I haven't heard anyone suggesting that, so it seems like a lot of madness
>> > and wackiness about nothing.
>> In the context of Workstation, KDE (or any other DE) inclusion has
>> been discussed as being available through software-installer.  If that
>> is the only option, then it would mean GNOME must be installed and
>> booted into to run software-installer to install KDE.  I'm personally
>> unsure if the live image installation can handle multiple DEs.  Even
>> if that isn't the only install option, most of the GNOME stack is
>> still required to be installed.
>
> But this is *only* in the Workstation context... it would have no effect on
> the KDE spin, which would still be available... right?

As far as I know, yes.  I see no reason for any of the existing spins
to no longer exist outside of those working on them losing interest.

josh