Re: Underlying DE for the Fedora Workstation product

2014-02-04 Thread Giovanni Campagna
2014-02-04 Alexander GS alxgrtnstr...@gmail.com: CC'd over from the Fedora Desktop developers mailing list: On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 19:04 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote: This is a very contentious topic, and you're promoting a minority view (I suspect GNOME and KDE are much more popular in

Re: Underlying DE for the Fedora Workstation product

2014-02-04 Thread Allan Day
Hi Alex, Thanks for reaching out with your ideas. I'm afraid that you're catching us at a bad time - we are really close to UI freeze and a lot of us are working flat out on that. I personally don't have much time to spare on mailing lists right now. :) Can you explain what the GNOME 2

Re: Underlying DE for the Fedora Workstation product

2014-02-04 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 13:09 +, Allan Day wrote: Hi Alex, Thanks for reaching out with your ideas. I'm afraid that you're catching us at a bad time - we are really close to UI freeze and a lot of us are working flat out on that. I personally don't have much time to spare on mailing lists

Re: Underlying DE for the Fedora Workstation product

2014-02-04 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 22:22 -0500, Alexander GS wrote: When you abandon active and popular products like that you cause developers to fork your product and keep it in active development. Just like the MATE team is doing today. In reality MATE is providing the free support and development

Re: Underlying DE for the Fedora Workstation product

2014-02-04 Thread Alex GS
On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 14:52 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 13:09 +, Allan Day wrote: Hi Alex, Thanks for reaching out with your ideas. I'm afraid that you're catching us at a bad time - we are really close to UI freeze and a lot of us are working flat out on

Re: Underlying DE for the Fedora Workstation product

2014-02-04 Thread Alex GS
Btw. Just realized that the post has a bunch of typos, hope you don't mind a quick re-post to fix those! To respond that that I'll copy a response I posted to the Fedora Workstation mailing list, it's modified to address your question specifically. It provides a context for just how critically

Re: Underlying DE for the Fedora Workstation product

2014-02-04 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 20:30 -0500, Alex GS wrote: On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 14:52 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 13:09 +, Allan Day wrote: Hi Alex, Thanks for reaching out with your ideas. I'm afraid that you're catching us at a bad time - we are really close to