It wouldn't be blocking, just like we wouldn't be blocking on any other piece of available software not working for a given release. Christian ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bastien Nocera" <bnocera@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 2:25:53 PM > Subject: Re: Underlying DE for the Workstation product > > ----- Original Message ----- > > That is a good question and there is always the risk of 'overloading' the > > app > > with to many purposes. > > That said in the next version there will be support for installing fonts, > > codecs and ibus methods, so > > there is some precedence for installing things that is technically not an > > 'application'. > > > > Hopefully some of the designers can chime in on this, I mean we could also > > considering putting this functionality > > somewhere else than the application installer if the designers thinks that > > is > > a better option. > > I think creating a UI for this isn't one bit useful. It would probably be > better served > by separate spins (which joins up with the discussions currently on > fedora-devel). > > I mean, where would we stop for this? Allow changing the display manager from > the UI? > Making sure that those desktops can actually work with Wayland when GNOME and > gdm > switches to that? > > It would severely limit the changes we can make to the workstation product, > having it > block on the non-primary desktops, a current problem we're trying to solve. > -- > desktop mailing list > desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
