-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/09/2014 07:46 AM, Christian Schaller wrote: > Hi everyone, > Here are some draft notes I prepared to try to help our marketing team > build up some release notes and press material on the Fedora Workstation release. > Already sent it to the Working Group members, but I thought I send it out to these two > lists for further review and suggestions. > > Christian > -------------------- > > Fedora Workstation Marketing > > The Fedora Workstation is a new take on desktop development from the Fedora > Community. Instead of seeing ourselves primarily as passive packagers of any > software we manage to find we are now instead picking the best components out > there and doing a lot of of work to integrate and polish them, presenting you > with something you will feel is a much more polished and targeted product > than what you seen before from the Fedora community. We want our desktop operating > system to solve your problems, not be your problem. > > Easy access to all your Software > The cornerstone of the Fedora Workstation is our Software installer application, or > our appstore if you like.. It provides a modern and fast interface for finding all > any kind of desktop software for your Fedora Workstation. In Fedora 21 we are using > the new hawkeye backend which will ensure a responsive and fast user experience and our > packagers have worked ardently with the relevant upstreams to greatly improve the > amount of applications that provide the needed information to populate the Software > installer. > > Improvements to the Terminal application > We want to make sure developers have a great experience and we do know that a strong > terminal application is a core part of that. Due to this we have worked to integrate > a set of new features in the terminal like support for transparent backgrounds, automatic > title updates which will make identifying different terminals easier, allow you do easily > toggle all system keybindings on and off in the terminal and in the GNOME desktop overview > you can search for terminal running processes by name. > > Experimental Wayland Support > We have a usable Wayland session available in Fedora Workstation 21. Wayland is the new and > exciting technology that will power the linux desktops going forward. With Fedora Workstation 21 > we offer you a unique opportunity to trial this technology and see how well your applications work > with it or to start experimenting with making your applications take advantage of some of the new > abilities Wayland will enable. A lot of the core Wayland development has been done by Fedora > Workstation contributors so this is your chance to try out this new exciting technology straight > from the source. > > Developer Assistant > As a developer we recognize that you need to be able to set up a host of different development > environments in an easy and straightforward manner. In Fedora Workstation we offer the > Developer Assistant to help with this task. With the aid of the Developer Assistant you can > quickly set up development environments for a long range of language runtimes and IDEs. And > thanks to its integration of the new Fedora Software Collections multiple versions of the > different languages are available to fit with your business requirements. > > Ease of installation > We want the installation of the Fedora Workstation to be as straightforward and simple as possible. > For the Fedora Workstation we have distilled this down to selecting the layout of your physical > media and then pressing install. Or if you want it even easier just let the installer choose the > disk layout for you. We also realize that the future of installations is not optical disks which > is why we ship with an easy to use tool for creating a bootable USB stick. > > Toolkit integration > You have a job to do and want to use whatever tools that let you get that job done. The Fedora Workstation > recognize that which is why we have been hard at work making sure that applications > using as many toolkits as possible feel as native as possible in your Fedora Workstation. Be that the > new themeing for Qt which makes applications written using that toolkit feel native or the ability > to run HTML5 webservices in a chromeless window, making them feel like a natural extension to your desktop. > > HiDPI Support > Technology never stands still and as a software developer you are used to using the best technology available. > Which is why we have spent a lot of time and effort on making sure that we support the new > generation of HiDPI displays well. Phoronix recently called our desktop the best of HiDPI. > > Exciting roadmap > This Fedora Workstaiton release is not the end, it is the beginning of a new era for Fedora on the desktop. We have an > exciting roadmap lined up aiming to bring a range of exciting new technologies to the linux desktop like containers, > smarter virtual machines, better development tools, more web integration and so on. So if you want to be part of the > future of the linux desktop be sure to get on board now! I had a thought churning around while following this thread; there isn't a most appropriate place to reply so I'll go back to the beginning :) I had a vision of Fedora Workstation as being made for developers in two contexts. First, targeting developers by providing a functional and reliable enviroment for their workstation. Second, providing a target *for* developers by making the environment more stable, providing stable APIs, and generally giving developers a platform that they can expect their applications to predictably coexist with in ways I don't have the expertise to list out :P Am I making a bad inference here? If not, and being a target for developers' own products is a product-level goal, the idea should be developed in the marketing copy. - -- - -- Pete Travis - Fedora Docs Project Leader - 'randomuser' on freenode - immanetize@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUIHJ0AAoJEL1wZM0+jj2Ze78IAIHLDFO6gp4nrkJ7XSW/aNo6 FFJc8ASZ4p27Y18X4q1O0MvTvB0vWb4BFXihORU18RrdnVopSRCBf44zFZXe5wl/ 9I+M6pGWcG1+c6T4f1X4Yj3TIREJfN/+gqmRQDcpYXBoHL1LS9a8s7iAuunZfgVW +kn74YEvh90mm+WR79IayQcXo9ExDRiRY0CDDyowdBQ0IJigwxMn9Oi7L8++zZBg 3zBDCnZ/McgAtnY67HDjXcB0Ou0Y7ZvsefqES/I/vJOlNv8f0vOj6FYc7s3rd+xN 45UMgZn8L4luLWgaMXEidx4xhENkPKsunxiIQU/XU+CiqXm0di/JiRj/8jNwEBY= =1pXc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
