On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 15:47 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > Hi All, > > Since everyone else seems to be shy about kicking off some of the > threads for the next steps, I'll get this one going and get it out of > the way. > > We need to settle on an underlying DE for the Workstation product. > The two major DEs in the Linux space are GNOME and KDE. Fedora has > spins for MATE, XFCE, and one other (I think). I've gathered that > there's a lot of assumption, both in the broader community and within > the WG, that Workstation will continue the Fedora trend and be based > on GNOME. I would even venture to say that is a fairly sane > assumption to make. > > With that in mind, would the WG like to officially settle on using > GNOME as the underlying DE for Workstation? > > I will be perfectly honest and say I have no overwhelming preference > here personally. My expertise extends to helping navigate through > Fedora process thus far, so I'm not sure I'd make a huge impact from > the technical side of things on whatever DE is picked. Given the tension between the definition of a "Workstation Product" and the multiple desktop spins that I've identified on devel@ - i.e. that a "Workstation product" built around a single desktop occupies the 'desktop space', without accounting for alternative desktops - do you definitely want to go ahead with the model where the WS product is specifically associated with a single desktop and makes no attempt to somehow 'include' alternative desktops, or is it worth considering possible approaches that somehow account for alternatives? I realize it might be quite late to do that, but it seemed worth asking the question. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
