-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/2014 10:37 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 10:21 +0100, Stephen Gallagher wrote: >> On 02/01/2014 11:07 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >>> Stephen Gallagher wrote: >>>> Right now, the vision essentially looks like: >>>> >>>> Fedora Products: This *is* Fedora. It comes in three >>>> flavors. >>> >>> I don't like the hardcoded "three" there at all, because if KDE >>> is to ever become a full-fledged Product (which IMHO it should >>> have been from the beginning!), it will need to change (unless >>> you're dropping one of your 3 sacred spins). >>> >> >> Well, I thought it was clear, since I did include the words >> "Right now", but yes: I do think that other products should be >> both permitted and planned. One thing I've been discussing as an >> option with some of the members of the KDE SIG is to promote >> Fedora Scientific, based on the present-day KDE and Scientific >> Spins, as a fourth Fedora Product. >> >> I think this would be valuable as it would also act as a >> prototype for what the new-product process will need to be going >> forward. > > This still seems kind of bizarre to me. Scientific Workstation is a > very niche spin for a particular audience which happens to use the > KDE desktop because, I dunno, the person who built the spin had to > pick *some* desktop and they liked KDE more than GNOME or > something. KDE is our most significant desktop spin after GNOME. > > If we're expanding the product set, Fedora KDE seems like a > reasonable Product candidate, but smooshing it together with > Scientific Workstation seems a bit bizarre. > It's not just that, actually. It has to do with the fact that the majority of the scientific-focused applications are built atop the QT4 and other KDE libraries, making it much better suited to operating atop the KDE desktop environment. Certainly it *can* be run in GNOME at the cost of additional memory usage and other resources. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlLx94cACgkQeiVVYja6o6NGNQCeKT3nPbjJ04q8htyShHqymZ5h Ue4AnRgzkAplJWv6KcZRAtqfA3tWHrWk =egPd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
