What has happened to desktop icons in rawhide?

[Peter Robinson]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 7:45 PM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 12:43 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:51:20 -0500,
>>>>   Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> > On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 17:44 +0200, cornel panceac wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > >
>>>> > > oh, but should it start panels? or at least the gnomeshell?
>>>> >
>>>> > Yes, it starts gnome-shell, unless your system is not capable of running
>>>> > it, in which case it starts gnome-panel+metacity.
>>>>
>>>> I did a yum upgrade from F14 to rawhide a month or so ago and have been doing
>>>> contunuous updates since then. Nothing seems to have dragged in gnome-shell.
>>>> It's probably worth thinking about a way to it installed for people doing
>>>> yum upgrades from F13 or F14. I am not sure if using preupgrade has the same
>>>> issue or not.
>>>
>>> That is a good point. We should perhaps add a gnome-session ->
>>> gnome-shell dependency.
>>
>> Please don't. There's a lot of devices that can't run gnome-shell but
>> can run the gnome 2 configuration perfectly. With dependencies like
>> that on devices with small amounts of space you end up with a lot of
>> extra stuff you don't want or need.
>
>
> gnome-shell should not end up being a space problem, if it is you'd be
> worried where the user is supposed to store his/here data ...

On something like an XO-1 where it only has 1gb of storage anything
extra removes space for user data. And you could have a different
device for /home anyway

Peter