Desktop issues discussion proposal

[Mariano Draghi]

Havoc Pennington escribió:

> 
> This is a home user though as you say, not really a current focus at Red
> Hat. Though we're happy to see people improving Fedora in this respect
> and aren't going to reject enhancements for home users.
> 
> Havoc
> 

Sorry, but http://fedora.redhat.com/ states:
"""
The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to 
build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free 
software.
"""

I really don't see where the "home users" are excluded in that definition.
I've been thinking that the "corporate" user was a target of RHEL, _not_ 
Fedora.

Besides, many of the latests discussions in this list (rythmbox vs xmms 
being a very good example) are clearly focused in usability of things 
that have nothing to do with the corporate desktop client assisted by a 
IT department.

Really, I don't get the point.

I'd like if for once someone clearly specifies which is the target 
audience of Fedora, so others can clearly choose if this is a project 
where it's worth participating.

Please, I _don't_ want to sound rude, but this is the kind of statements 
that put Fedora as just a pre-beta of RHEL, and I'm afraid that hurts 
the process.

Besides, if RedHat is going to focus only in the things they care (i.e., 
enterprise), and want others (the community) to do the rest of the work, 
then Red Hat should set up ASAP the infrastructure so the community can 
get more involved.
Because there is no point in having this loooooong threads here if at 
the end RedHat is going to do what they want and nothing else.

Right now (FC1), Fedora is a very "usable" and general purpose OS. Has 
this goal changed? When? Why? By whom?

This question of what RedHat wants or not wants pops up here and there 
from time to time... and even people deeply involved in RedHat has 
different opinions (or goals). Again, I don't see the point of _many_ of 
the threads in this list (and the others) if Fedora is going to be 
"Fedora Desktop ENTERPRISE Linux".

Sorry for the rant, just my 2 cents...

-- 
Mariano