On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Elad Alfassa <elad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. It does. Its called "WordPad". -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
