2013/1/28 Sandro Mani <manisan...@gmail.com> > Can't we simply re-organize the fedoraproject website in such way that the > download button points to something similar to the current "More options" > page, maybe with a small description for each desktop like "easy to use" / > "feature rich and customizable" / "based on the traditional desktop" / etc > and possibly sorted by popularity, i.e. number of downloads? >
+1 > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Michał Piotrowski <mkkp...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> 2013/1/28 Nikos Roussos <comzer...@fedoraproject.org> >> >>> ** >>> On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 00:10 -0800, Dan Mashal wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Monday, January 28, 2013, Nikos Roussos wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 14:53 +0000, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: >>> > The Gnome 3 interface is substantially different that the traditional >>> desktop >>> > interfaces on both Linux and Windows. >>> >>> At least for Windows 8, neither Cinnamon is close to its desktop >>> interface. >>> >>> > While it is good that there is research >>> > into new user interface concepts, many users prefer to have a >>> traditional >>> > interface that they are accustomed to. Unfortunately it is difficult or >>> > impossible to assess what fraction of the user base prefers Gnome >>> Shell vs. a >>> > more traditional interface. >>> >>> Exactly. There is no way to know that. So I see no real reason to change >>> our default desktop. >>> Even if we consider Gnome 3 as a "research" (which I don't), Fedora is >>> known to adopt innovative technologies. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Nikos Roussos >>> comzeradd @ freenode.net >>> >>> -- >>> devel mailing list >>> devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >>> >>> >>> >>> Innovative. >>> >>> >>> >>> "Innovative" or "deevolutionary", "boring", or just plain "annoying"? >>> They can all be used in different ways. What you might consider >>> "innovative" a lot of people consider annoying. >>> >>> >>> True. Or others might consider it productive. Same goes for all Desktop >>> environments. That's why I said that I see no real argument here for >>> changing our default desktop. >>> >> >> Maybe it should be something like "defaultless" desktop. Just install >> Gnome and display desktop ballot screen "Yes, we know that Gnome 3 sucks >> for 85% of population. Here you got an alternatives." >> >> >>> -- >>> Nikos Roussos <http://roussos.cc> >>> comzeradd @ freenode.net >>> >>> -- >>> devel mailing list >>> devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Michal >> >> http://eventhorizon.pl/ >> https://getactive.pl/ >> >> -- >> devel mailing list >> devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >> > > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- Best regards, Michal http://eventhorizon.pl/ https://getactive.pl/
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