On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield <gabrb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Rodrigo, > > Thanks for bringing this up in IRC (#meego). > > On Monday, May 02, 2011 03:56:15 pm Rodrigo Padula wrote: >> >> Unfortunately Fedora will not support the Meego netbook >> remix(fedora based meego distribution) as Fedora >> upstream project anymore. > > These days, this is like saying "Fedora will not support the > Debian remix as Fedora upstream project anymore."
No its not. Its like Fedora saying they won't support the Unity UX in Fedora. One is a distribution, one is a UX. > MeeGo *is* an upstream distribution. It is also a number of separate UXes that can and should be Distribution independent. Don't confuse the two components, they are different even though they have the same name. > It appears that (before) you guys were doing this with > Moblin's desktop front-end (mutter)... which became the > Netbook UX. Err. NO! > First, porting the Netbook UX to Fedora is not "MeeGo on > Fedora." Netbook is the only MeeGo front end to use > mutter/clutter, and it's future is considered dim within > MeeGo. It has not been getting much attention, and some key > developers have referred to it as having "no future." Yes, agreed. > So, if Fedora drops mutter-meego I think many would say that > this is a good thing. For one, it confuses people about > what MeeGo *is*. And two, it appears to be waning withing > MeeGo. MeeGo confuses itself about what it is. Its been discussed on the lists before. >> Since Fedora will adopt GNOME3 by default and the GNOME >> Shell uses Mutter, there are a conflict between GNOME > > I think this is good news. Mutter is excellent (as is the > Netbook UX), and would hate to see it go to waste. Huh, those two statements conflict each other. Peter _______________________________________________ MeeGo-community mailing list MeeGo-community@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
