Abandon "Default Desktop"

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon May 4 19:49:39 UTC 2009


"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> I'm suggesting that we have no default and no "Fedora Desktop" spin
> (  Current  Fedora-Desktop would be renamed to Fedora-Gnome to allow
> all DE to compete among them self on equal ground )

Me too.

> Is the current Desktop SIG made up by representatives from each of the
> *DE's which
> then can make neutral informed decision what the current status is
> amongst all the DE and thus choose
> what should be Fedora ( next ) Desktop...
> 
> Or
> 
> Is the Desktop SIG governed by single DE oriented persons and or is made
> up by majority of individual that work for the same company that can thus
> influence the decision either directly or indirectly on what
> is and will be Fedora's Desktop?

The latter, of course (and I'm sure you know that :-) ).

And this is exactly the problem with the naming. The "Fedora Desktop team"
is basically identical to the Red Hat Desktop Team which is really a GNOME
team, not a desktop team. How Red Hat calls their departments is their own
business, but their internal naming should not leak into the names of
released products/projects/spins/whatever.

Just because it's produced by a team calling itself the "Desktop Team"
doesn't make it the "desktop spin".

        Kevin Kofler




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