Abandon "Default Desktop"

Casey Dahlin cdahlin at redhat.com
Tue Apr 28 17:28:16 UTC 2009


Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
> Casey Dahlin wrote:
>> Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
>>  
>>> So the question is this...
>>>
>>> Should we or should we not drop the Default Desktop concept?
>>>
>>> If we decided we will abandon default desktop concept only then we can
>>> start talking about what
>>> are the necessary steps to complete that task.
>>>
>>> JGB
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> I think dropping the default desktop is the wrong way to accomplish
>> what you want.   
> Hum what do you think I want?
> 
> Just curious if i'm not clear enough you know to prevent
> misunderstanding on what I want..
> 

You'd like the desktops to be treated symmetrically, from what I gather. The most elegant way to do that from a technical and a UI standpoint is to offer a different version of the media for each. It prevents us from overflowing media, from adding clutter or over-technical choices to the install process itself, and it means the user is being presented the decision via a website (a much better place to educate and inform).

Of course it only achieves the desired "balance" if neither media is the "main" media. We should simply have Fedora KDE and Fedora GNOME. Neither one is "regular" Fedora.

Are there volunteers to do the work to engineer things this way?

--CJD

> JBG
> 




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