On 01/29/2013 01:25 PM, Dan Mashal wrote:
On Tuesday, January 29, 2013, Marcela Mašláňová wrote:
On 01/27/2013 03:53 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
= Features/Cinnamon as Default Desktop =
https://fedoraproject.org/__wiki/Features/Cinnamon_as___Default_Desktop
<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Cinnamon_as_Default_Desktop>
Feature owner(s): Eric Smith <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
This feature proposes that Fedora switch the default desktop
interface from
Gnome 3 to Cinnamon. Cinnamon provides a desktop interface that
is more
familiar to Windows and Gnome 2 users than the standard Gnome
Shell interface,
while being built from Gnome 3 components.
== Detailed description ==
The Gnome 3 interface is substantially different that the
traditional desktop
interfaces on both Linux and Windows. While it is good that
there is research
into new user interface concepts, many users prefer to have a
traditional
interface that they are accustomed to. Unfortunately it is
difficult or
impossible to assess what fraction of the user base prefers
Gnome Shell vs. a
more traditional interface. I'm not trying to start (or
continue) a flame war
here, so I won't state any of my own criticisms of Gnome Shell
here, but I
will observe that a number of very high profile people in the
Linux community,
such as Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox, have publicly announce that
due to
problems with Gnome Shell they are switching to a different
desktop and/or
Linux distribution.
I submit the proposition that it is easier for a user doing a
new Fedora
install to start with a traditional desktop, and switch to the
Gnome Shell if
they prefer that, than to start with Gnome Shell and switch to a
traditional
desktop.
The Cinnamon desktop provides a traditional desktop while being
based on the
latest Gnome and GTK components, so it seems like a better
candidate for a
default desktop than MATE, which is based on older components.
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Eric,
do you have support of all teams, which will work with you? Design,
QA, docs, releng to create spin, ...? It's not only about popularity
of DE, but also about future support of Cinnamon in Fedora.
I'm personally not interested in any gnome fork, so I'm interested
only in stability of the default.
Marcela
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I'm sure QA, releng, docs, etc will go with what the community decides.
Lets have a poll. A very public one.
On the main website. Not somebody's blog. And let's let the users decide
what they want.
I'll tell you what, last time I checked #1 spin is KDE.
Dan
Dan, voting about DE of choice is one thing. Doing the work is
something different. I was waiting for reply from the one who wants to
work on the change, not from you ;-)
Marcela
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