Am Dienstag, den 07.12.2010, 08:50 -0500 schrieb Jared K. Smith:
> 2010/12/6 "JÃhann B. GuÃmundsson" <johannbg@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > What does this mean for other *DE and various community within the project?
>
> In short, nothing different than things have been for the past couple of years.
Some examples of what this means:
* Desktop SIG defines the default GTK theme and hardcodes the
theme as dependency.
* Desktop SIG defines gnome-icon-theme as the default icon theme
and hardcodes it too.
* These two pull in other gnome packages. It is impossible to
install a desktop without having fedora-gnome-theme or
gnome-icon-theme
* Some more examples of painful dependency bloat:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=depchain
* Removal of hal-storage just a few days before beta freeze.
* Removal of the legacy icon names shortly before beta freeze
resulting in many missing icons.
* Removal of the notification area which and the resulting API
changes in libnotify 0.7.0 breaks all other desktop bug
gnome-shell.
* Change from Nodoka to Clearlooks. Many people objected, after
FPL spoke up the GNOME SIG promised to revisit the decision and
keep us informed. This did not happen.
* Black notifications that looked like a Ubuntu ripp-of. Again
many people objected, but again GNOME SIG did not care.
And now there is
http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2010/12/second-class-citizens.html
This really makes me wonder if Fedora is a distribution to work on for
people who are not using the one and only true desktop that must not be
named but called "the Fedora desktop" [1].
Regards,
Christoph
[1] Board decision, you remember?
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