On 09/19/2013 02:55 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
I don't think calling the SIG the 'GNOME SIG' makes sense though, especially since that's an upstream community's name. I would think it'd be better named, 'Desktop Playpen SIG,' 'Desktop Customization SIG,' or something like that.
I've been a Gnome users since days of the helixcode and this is Gnome and we are not ashamed or trying to hide that fact under the label "Desktop" and this is done right and out of respect towards the community and in accordance with how the other DE as it should have been done from the start.
What is, what always has been and always will be wrong is to have something called "Desktop" or "Default Desktop", "Default Workstation" quite frankly it is and and always has been dictated by RH what it is and will clearly be continued to do so since all the RH employees had signed up to the WG nomination page before the community even knew of it's existence.
The fact is that we have 7 other desktop environments which community members are working on and just been cause they are not part of the Red Hat desktop team or not being paid to work on their desktop environment and do not suffer from the Gnome tunnel vision they do and should get equal presentation and equal opportunity to advance themselves with in our community.
And if something should be done in our upcoming changes it would be to kill the default desktop, merge the desktop list with gnome list and give the Gnome community the freedom instead of tying their hands "generic default" which does not work for anybody or proxy control them through FESCO decision.
There the Gnome developers could keep the "traditional spin" going while the Gnome community members have the tools to play around without interfering with that ( which is what I'm currently working towards ) because in the end of the day they will need a vibrant community surrounding themselves if they are going to pass their own release testing matrix.
QA wont be doing that laber work for them. JBG -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
