Does Fedora want to expel KDE from its offerings?

[Temlakos]

On 12/09/2014 01:24 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 01:17:59PM -0500, Temlakos wrote:
>> With the F21 release, they grudgingly let you upgrade with the
>> "nonproduct" option.
> I think you're projecting. Command line options do not hold grudges.

But designers of command-line programs do.

>
>> But what happens with F22? Will they Shanghai all us KDE users and
>> force us to switch to GNOME, or else get out of the Fedora
>> community?
> No. Why on earth would we want either of those things?

To rid yourselves of what you might consider a needless complication.

>
>> Where is the option to specify KDE as a Product?
> See:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora.next#What_makes_a_.22product.22.3F
>
> and, older,
>
> http://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-present-and-future-a-fedora-next-2014-update-part-ii-whats-happening/
>
> As for upgrading, there's no particular _reason_ to need a KDE-specific
> option at this point, but if in the future the KDE SIG would like to
> increase differentiation from the defaults in a way that would make it
> useful, an option could be added.

By the way: the link I found to spins.fedoraproject.org/ still has the 
links for the old F20 spin torrents. Is that an oversight on someone's part?

Indeed: I read and understand what you wrote on those pages. I even read 
what you wrote about a discussion either to create a specific Plasma 
product, /or/ to invite the "KDE Sig" to take active roles in the 
development of the Workstation project. I read what you wrote, but it's 
not happening. What /is/ happening is a monumental disdain for any 
desktop other than GNOME.

>
>
>> I chose KDE for a reason: GNOME is just plain too confusing when it
>> comes to "switching a user." For that reason, and a whole host of
>> pleasant discoveries of how well KDE replicates another environment
>> with which I am familiar, I chose KDE beginning with F12. And I
>> never looked back.
> Cool. KDE is great, the Fedora KDE community is awesome, and the Fedora
> KDE spin is top-notch.
>

I agree. I just want to make sure the KDE spin is in no danger of 
discontinuance.

Temlakos
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