On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Christian Schaller <cschalle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, so a couple of weeks ago I blogged** about who Fedora Workstation is an integrated system, but also asking for > feedback for why people are not migrating to Fedora Workstation, especially asking about why people would be using > GNOME 3 on another distro. So I got about 140 comments on that post so I thought I should write up a summary and > post here. There was of course a lot of things mentioned, but I will try to keep this summary to what I picked up > as the recurring topics. > > So while this of course is a poll consisting of self selected commentators I still think the sample is big enough that we > should take the feedback into serious consideration for our plans going forward. Some of them I even think are already > handled by underway efforts. > > [...] > 3rd Party Software > This was the single most brought up item. With people saying that they stayed on other distros due to the pain of > getting 3rd party software on Fedora. This ranged from drivers (NVidia, Wi-Fi), to media codecs to end user > applications. Width of software available in general was also brought up quite a few times. If anyone is in any doubt > that our current policy here is costing us users I think these comments clearly demonstrates otherwise. Its getting worse RF does not have a repo for F22 which means once it is released even RF won't be an easy option for a while. > > HiDPI issues > A few comments on various challenges people have with HiDPI screens, especially when dealing with non-GTK3 apps- Well I had patches to fix this (requires wayland though; but still works for legacy apps) see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728902 Should try to find time to fnish them at some point. > Multimonitor support > A few comments that our multimonitor support could be better > > SELinux is a pain > A few comments about SELinux still getting in the way at times Anything more specific than that? > Better Android integration > A few people asked for more/better Android device integration features What does that mean? > Built in backup solution > A few people requested we create some kind of integrated backup solution > > Also a few concrete requests in terms of applications for Fedora: > http://www.mixxx.org > http://www.vocalproject.net > https://gnumdk.github.io/lollypop/ > http://peterlevi.com/variety/ > http://foldercolor.tuxfamily.org > choqok for GNOME (microblogging client) Well if there are no legal issues (assuming all of those are FOSS) we could just package them. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
