On 01/04/2015 06:46 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Gary Scarborough wrote:
Is workstation being aimed at new users or developers? And is the goal
the same for Gnome? If Gnome is aiming to cater to new users, then is it
the right primary DE for fedora? There seems to be a misalignment here.
I've been pointing out that misalignment from day 1. Nobody seems to care.
IMHO, developers are much better served with the KDE Spin:
* Plasma is more configurable and more adapted to the power users that
developers inevitably are,
* Apper (the package management GUI installed by default on the KDE spin)
does not hide development packages the way GNOME Software (the package
management GUI installed by default on the Workstation product) does,
* Qt and kdelibs / KDE Frameworks are a better development platform than
GTK+ (and yes, I've used both),
* KDevelop is a better IDE than anything GNOME has to offer.
The choice of GNOME as a desktop environment completely contradicts the
claimed target of "developers".
Kevin Kofler
The Workstation product is generally aimed at developers as per the
Target Audience section of the Workstation PRD[1], and the Workstation
working group decided on GNOME as the desktop to use to accomplish the
goals laid out in the PRD. Although the Workstation PRD sets out a lot
of developer-centric goals, the choice of GNOME as the default desktop
and the discussion around the not-so-devleoper-centric GNOME Software
app and other GNOME features make it seem like the Workstation product
is kind of awkwardly straddling the line between a shiny new
developer-centric "Workstation" product and the old "Desktop" default
GNOME-based spin (whose goals are not really enumerated in the PRD.) In
that light I can see how it may look like the choice of GNOME for the
Workstation product seem contradictory.
Are there any plans to promote the KDE spin to a product? Reading the
Workstation PRD and taking into account their choice of GNOME as the
default environment, it looks like there are wide open "Average User,"
"Power User," and "Cross-Platform Development (via Qt)" target audiences
that a new KDE-based "Fedora Desktop" or similar product could easily
cater to.
Rich
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Workstation_PRD
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