On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Evandro Giovanini <efgiovanini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A few things worth considering:- Java is quite popular among the Workstation target audience (between web and mobile development), so installing it by default may not be such a bad idea.- Without Libreoffice there's no support for .doc or even RTF documents in the default install. This is something all operating systems currently support (Windows, OS X and all major Linux distributions). While I'm in favor of offering a lean selection of apps now that Software is a great and usable tool, I believe that an OS should support viewing all common MIME types out of the box.--Evandr
Having a Java runtime environment doesn't help you with mobile development, you'd have to install Eclipse as well - and that pull in Java anyway. I also don't think a technology being "popular" is a good reason to include it by default, otherwise we'd include ruby on rails, django, docker, and PHP by default.
AFAIK, Microsoft Windows does not come with a .doc viewer by default. In Windows you have to download the viewer separately. I don't know about Mac.
Also, when you try to open a file you don't have an app to handle you'd get a dialog asking you if you want to search and install software to open your file.
--
-Elad Alfassa.
-- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
