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 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
