On 02/03/2014 01:38 PM, Richard Hughes wrote:
On 3 February 2014 13:26, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Really why is the "workstation working group" dictating and decided that..
a) it's an single product
b) a single desktop environment
c) which desktop environment it is
The reality is, what we've done for the last 19 releases isn't
working. People don't know what "Fedora" is. Ubuntu has done a much
better job of marketing themselves, and I'm sure it's no small amount
due to the lack of confusion about their brand and offering. At the
moment people wanting a Fedora desktop are shown this:
http://fedoraproject.org/en_GB/get-fedora#desktops which is confusing
as hell. All desktops that look somewhat similar with different subtle
architectural, cultural or package changes in each. Compare to
http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop which clearly has one product. Ubuntu
still has a KDE version, it's just not called "Ubuntu KDE" and placed
with the same prominence as "Ubuntu
The-one-most-people-are-actually-using"
If people want to go and build Kedora or MATEora that's fine for me,
and probably makes sense to share infrastructure and base package
sets. To allow users to choose a "spin" for our workstation product?
Crazy.
I question that logic since...
A) People make choices everyday from the day the get up in the morning
to the time they go back to sleep.
B) People already are faced with the exact same question be it
application in a cloud, on a server or in a desktop environment
thunderbird vs evolution, totem vs vlc which is why for example you
yourself are working on a software center with an rating system so
people can chose what other people think what are the best/most popular
application that serve their needs.
C) Is the general end user which ubuntu is after the kind of end user we
seek since we are fundamentally a project that expect our user base
being able to contribute *back* to us, an feedback which we then deliver
upstream and the entire GNU/Linux ecosystem benefits from including us
when the result from that feedback get's delivered here downstream back
to us.
JBG
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