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

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 08:21 +0000, Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote:
> 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...)

We've already discussed this, but to put it simply, just because we
*have* both Products and spins doesn't mean we have to attach equal
importance to them all, in any number of ways.
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