On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 05:23:28PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 12:18:07PM -0500, Christian Schaller wrote: > > Hi Matthew, > > Because they are not primarily developing desktop applications? Or are developing cross platform applications? > > So who's going to write the normal desktop applications for our > platform? To expand on this - Fedora is the only significant distribution to use the full GNOME stack for our desktop apps. If we don't seek to target average desktop users then there's no incentive for developers to target the GNOME stack, which means there's no new and interesting desktop apps which means there's no incentive for average desktop users to run Fedora. Saying that we won't actively discourage average desktop users from running Fedora is a copout - the inevitable consequence is that average desktop users will stop running Fedora because there's nothing for them to use there. Ignoring non-developers does nothing to advance Freedom. It's likely to shrink our community, so it's not clear that it's doing anything for Friends. I'd argue that any PRD should be fundamentally based on the four foundations, and I'd like to see a strong justification for how Workstation is doing so. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
