Abandon "Default Desktop"

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Thu Apr 30 17:59:14 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 12:51 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> It would make more sense for the Fedora Board to just come out and say
> that they don't like anything but Gnome, and would prefer not to have
> any resources go towards anything but Gnome. Because having
> maintainers almost beg for a more equal access to potential users is
> really kind of sad.

The board would likely never say that.  However there are a large number
of Fedora resources that are focused on new technology and advancements
in the user experience.  Most of this effort is focused on the Gnome
desktop.  This is due to the number of package maintainers in Fedora
that are also the upstream developers.  So we do tend to see the new
things in Gnome first, and then KDE later (see NetworkManager,
PackageManager, pulseaudio, DeviceKit, power management, so on, so
forth).  When you look at our feature list, many of the cool things we
want to show off are only available in Gnome, or with Gnome/gtk
applications.  As such, Fedora's "best foot forward" when it comes to
showing off the work we're doing and advancing technology is the gnome
based desktop.  It's not a pure gnome spin, we're using other parts such
as Firefox, so really it is the "Fedora Desktop".

(this is my opinion, I'm speaking for myself, not the board.)

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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