Announcing Fedora 7 Test 4 (6.93)

[Jesse Keating]

On Monday 30 April 2007 08:55:47 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> And you don't consider KDE to be part of Fedora? KDE Live is mostly KDE
> programs and some GNOME, some GTK and other programs just like GNOME
> live cd. It has never been about purity of the desktop environment. Just
> different focus. Both of the desktop environments are part of Fedora.
> The GNOME live images are not anymore specifically about Fedora than the
> KDE live images.

KDE is a part of Fedora, however the overwhelming evidence is that Fedora 
focuses on Gnome and GTK stacks.  Almost all the Fedora upstream software 
that is graphical is built on gnome/gtk.  It is the most integrated 
experience you can get.  Using KDE is a less integrated less polished 
experience, and thus it is not our best foot forward.

>   The Desktop environment that Fedora wants to put forward as the
>
> > default, the best foot forward.
>
> No. It's the desktop environment the GNOME team should be putting it's
> best foot forward. The KDE team should be putting it's best foot forward
> via the KDE live images (same for XFCE or fluxbox or whatever teams) and
> we in the Fedora project should be giving both these teams *neutral
> ground* to compete aggressively and fairly on winning over new users.

Except it's not the "GNOME" team.  It's the Desktop team.  The Desktop team is 
pushing a highly polished and integrated desktop, which currently happens to 
be around the GNOME desktop environment.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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