On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 12:08 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > The GNOME we're trying to build has its own vision, and it's trying to > become its own well-defined product: The number-one free software > operating system. Not it's not. This means that they have a single dedicated desktop experience and that the community is allowed to use those components but there isn't a formal mechanism to standardize to a common core. It also excludes any potential requirements for a separate desktop environment for commercial vendors. If you actually read my Proposal you would realize that. I have worked out a compromise that works for GNOME 3, GNOME 2 and the Gnome community projects. It's called the GNOME Meta-Desktop. PROPOSAL ----------------------- GNOME Meta-Desktop Problem For some time now, Linux has been evolving beyond the idea of the "single" desktop platform. This is not Windows where each platform is bolted down to a single desktop interface design. Unfortunately projects like GNOME have been slow to adapt. GNOME's focus on a single dedicated desktop interface design has caused the Linux desktop space to fragment causing divisions and frictions between the various communities. This has also deprived commercial Linux platforms the ability to shape desktops that fit strict requirements demanded by their target markets. Currently and unofficially GNOME is evolving into a meta-desktop with GNOME Shell, Cinnamon and MATE the resultant outputs of this evolution. This brings along with it several problems such as fragmentation and redundancies. The GNOME meta-desktop needs to be standardized, needs community collaboration and needs GNOME in-house desktop products to drive it forward. https://wiki.gnome.org/AlexGS/GnomeMetaDesktop ------------------------ Pursuant to this proposal being accepted and implemented the following will occur: - The Fedora Workstation product will feature GNOME 3 as it's official default and GNOME 2 will always be bundled with GNOME 3 on Workstation installations and on install images. Installations and install disks that do not contain both GNOME 3 and GNOME 2 cannot be considered Fedora Workstation. This requirement remains indefinitely. - GNOME 2 will be the default for RHEL and CentOS. Users will have the option of installing GNOME 3 as well. They will have to add special repositories to do this. - Community desktops based on GNOME re-spins like MATE or forks like Cinnamon in addition to non-GNOME desktops like KDE and will be "supported" desktops but NOT included by default on Fedora Workstation installation. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
