Re: F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation (System-Wide)

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Andreas Tunek wrote:
> From Red Hat's POV it is not Fedora Gnome Workstation (
> https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2020/05/07/gnome-is-not-the-default-for-fedora-workstation/
> ).

TL;DR: "We do not want 'GNOME' in the name because we want to only support 
GNOME in Workstation, whereas 'GNOME Workstation' would imply that there are 
other Workstations."

I am not sure I buy this argument. By the same argument, we should also not 
call the OS "Fedora Linux" because it implies there is also a "Fedora BSD" 
or "Fedora Hurd" or even "Fedora Windows" ;-) or something.

Giving a product a clear name does not imply existence of another product.

(And that is not even arguing the premise of the "one single Workstation 
that happens to use GNOME" concept, only the branding implications!)

> One of the best things with Fedora Workstation is that it is a complete
> user facing OS (like Windows, macOS and iOS) that you actually can develop
> applications for (if you want to). You don't have to target the extremely
> fluffy "Linux desktop", you can target Fedora Workstation. This proposal
> would totally eliminate the good points of having this single OS and app
> platform.

That "conveniently" ignores the existence of that pesky thing called "other 
distributions". The GNU/Linux version of vendor lock-in. Thanks Red Hat!

And besides, a standalone application (as opposed to a desktop widget or 
similar) developed for one of the Fedora desktop deliverables (Workstation 
Edition, desktop Spins) is also going to work on any of the others.

        Kevin Kofler
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