On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 15:47 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
Hi All,
Since everyone else seems to be shy about kicking off some of the
threads for the next steps, I'll get this one going and get it out of
the way.
We need to settle on an underlying DE for the Workstation product.
The two major DEs in the Linux space are GNOME and KDE. Fedora has
spins for MATE, XFCE, and one other (I think). I've gathered that
there's a lot of assumption, both in the broader community and within
the WG, that Workstation will continue the Fedora trend and be based
on GNOME. I would even venture to say that is a fairly sane
assumption to make.
With that in mind, would the WG like to officially settle on using
GNOME as the underlying DE for Workstation?
I will be perfectly honest and say I have no overwhelming preference
here personally. My expertise extends to helping navigate through
Fedora process thus far, so I'm not sure I'd make a huge impact from
the technical side of things on whatever DE is picked.
Given the tension between the definition of a "Workstation Product" and
the multiple desktop spins that I've identified on devel@ - i.e. that a
"Workstation product" built around a single desktop occupies the
'desktop space', without accounting for alternative desktops - do you
definitely want to go ahead with the model where the WS product is
specifically associated with a single desktop and makes no attempt to
somehow 'include' alternative desktops, or is it worth considering
possible approaches that somehow account for alternatives? I realize it
might be quite late to do that, but it seemed worth asking the question.
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