Re: 5tFTW: F21 Alpha, Shellshock, Schedule Docs Update, Flock 2015 Locations, and a Fedora User Committee idea (2014-09-26)

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On Mon, 2014-09-29 at 16:00 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 10:51:20 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 
> > [....] It is true that Workstation is
> > based on the GNOME desktop, but that's incidental to the point. You'll
> > still be able to install any desktop, including GNOME, outside of the
> > Workstation product. However, Workstation is currently going to be the
> > main desktop-user-targeted deliverable that we're focusing Fedora
> > resources on.
> 
> 	It's not clear from the above whether those of us who just can't 
> cope with Gnome3 (even if/when we want to) will be able to go on using 
> Fedora. What is the difference between Workstation and other desktops? 
> Can we still adopt apps from others? (I'm thinking F21W plus Konqueror, 
> Mate-workspace manager, Gnome-terminal, etc.)
> 
> 	I've been sticking to Mate and Xfce for the most part. I have 
> Gnome3 on one machine, and try to use it a little every day, but it's 
> still counter-intuitive and counter-productive for my uses. At such rare 
> times as I know exactly how to get to an app I want, it takes me twice as 
> many keystrokes or mouse clicks as Gnome2,or Xfce4, or Mate, often with 
> waits in among them. That means I lose my train of thought.
> 
> 	I don't run servers and wouldn't touch the cloud with a mushroom. 
> So it's workstation or nothing, afaict; and if workstation means having 
> to fight Gnome3, then with great reluctance I'll have to jump distro.
> 
> 	I don't know how many other users may be in the same boat. My 
> impression is that I'm by no means alone.

I have never had any version of Gnome as my default DE (I'm a KDE user
since before Fedora even existed under that name) so I suspect you're
worrying unnecessarily.

poc

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