Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Grigory Shipunov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/02/13 10:19, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 02/05/2013 05:51 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 02:59 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: , but since you started it: OpenSUSE is doing just fine doing exactly what I suggest (making people

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/05/2013 07:40 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: Le mardi 05 février 2013 à 06:43 +0100, Ralf Corsepius a écrit : I think you are putting too much emphasize on first-timers and seem to be forgetting the Linux distro switcher-users. For them, easily finding the DE they know from their so-far used

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/05/2013 09:24 AM, Jef Spaleta wrote: On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: Absolutely no. My points are: * The Gnome3-suite will never fit everybody, i.e. trying to push/force it onto all users will never work and is not helpful to the Fedora

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 08:51:47PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: That would be the SUSE that along with Mandriva got completely panned when Ubuntu showed up, then? The last numbers I had showed that the openSUSE user base is about the same size as the Fedora user base. (That was about two years

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/05/2013 10:06 AM, Matej Cepl wrote: On 2013-02-05, 06:19 GMT, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Reality is, when mentioning Fedora to Linux users, I am having difficulties to not get laughed at. Freaks'/nerds' distro, Ubuntu is much easier, Fedora lacks s much, Way too unstable, Way too short

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Mathieu Bridon
On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 11:12 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: You never heard sentences like: * What you can cope with Fedora? Is the GUI still this unusable beta crap? I did (Usually from Ubuntu users), and am not happy having to hear this. You never heard Ubuntu users pondering a switch to

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Kévin Raymond
Good people walk balanced step towards the goal. Others, without knowing, dance around them contemporary dances. (Franz Kafka) I wouldn't be worried that Fedora is not cool. Actually, thinking about it, that's the best part of Fedora. Absolutely d'accord ... But why have this kool

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread drago01
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 02/05/2013 10:06 AM, Matej Cepl wrote: On 2013-02-05, 06:19 GMT, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Reality is, when mentioning Fedora to Linux users, I am having difficulties to not get laughed at. Freaks'/nerds' distro,

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
- Original Message - From: Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 12:27:35 PM Subject: Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop On 02/05/2013 10:06 AM, Matej Cepl wrote: On 2013-02-05, 06:19 GMT, Ralf

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:01:49 +0800 Mathieu Bridon boche...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 11:12 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Sigh, let me try again: The Fedora project is pushing away Fedora users from Fedora, because Fedora/RH have missed that it's new DE (Gnome3) is

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Jon Ciesla
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Jef Spaleta jspal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: I disagree. Fedora's lack of popularity is largely thanks to these issues. In this context, I feel the Cinnamon request rsp. the give users a

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Justin M. Forbes
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 11:27:10PM +0100, Martin Sourada wrote: On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 16:34:18 +0100 Jan Kratochvil wrote: Still I believe it is probably true as I doubt Fedora QA tests compatibility with old hosts. Fedora QA AFAIK tests on their own hardware only + virtual machines. I

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 11:18 +0100, Michael Schroeder wrote: On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 08:51:47PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: That would be the SUSE that along with Mandriva got completely panned when Ubuntu showed up, then? The last numbers I had showed that the openSUSE user base is about

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 02/04/2013 09:49 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: The user should also be informed that the choice is not final, and the DE can be switched after the installation via package manager. Does the current webpage indicate this somewhere? I could not see it. What's worse is that it's harder than it

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: What's worse is that it's harder than it used to be to change the desktop---desktop style is no longer a login-time selection. It certainly is. Every login manager offers that option Rahul -- devel mailing list

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Tom Hughes
On 05/02/13 16:58, Przemek Klosowski wrote: What's worse is that it's harder than it used to be to change the desktop---desktop style is no longer a login-time selection. In fact, I am not sure what is the recommended method nowadays--- groupinstall KDE + groupremove Gnome? but this can't be

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 17:17 +, Tom Hughes wrote: On 05/02/13 16:58, Przemek Klosowski wrote: What's worse is that it's harder than it used to be to change the desktop---desktop style is no longer a login-time selection. In fact, I am not sure what is the recommended method nowadays---

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Rave it
There is a current poll at fedora forum. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=284463 The winner is... Wolfgang -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.02.2013 19:49, schrieb Rave it: There is a current poll at fedora forum. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=284463 pff look at the total count 56 users said they use GNOME3 so what.. and even if the count would be larger, it says nothing about how satisfied they

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Alec Leamas
On 2013-02-05 20:06, Reindl Harald wrote: [cut] what makes me rellay angry (as one who never used and will use GNOME and i knew GNOME 1.0 and KDE 1.0 as well where most users of today not heard about linux at all) is that the GNOME developers did NOT learn ANYTHING by the KDE4.0 disaster and

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Ian Malone
On 5 February 2013 20:10, Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't say Fedora follows blindly but rather chooses an upstream from some alternatives (their ability to handle feedback from us beeing one ot the criterias). Gnome has been the default, unless I'm misremebering since

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/05/2013 09:31 PM, Ian Malone wrote: On 5 February 2013 20:10, Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't say Fedora follows blindly but rather chooses an upstream from some alternatives (their ability to handle feedback from us beeing one ot the criterias). Gnome has been the

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Jon Ciesla
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 02/05/2013 09:31 PM, Ian Malone wrote: On 5 February 2013 20:10, Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't say Fedora follows blindly but rather chooses an upstream from some alternatives (their ability

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
On 05/02/13 12:09 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: In the Gnome2 days you had choices between functionally similar DEs. Times have changed ... Gnome has been forked multiply (Gnome3, MATE, Cinammon), xfce/enlightenment are back. Gnome 3 is still Gnome. Both MATE and Cinnamon which came years after

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Alec Leamas
On 2013-02-05 21:46, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 02/05/2013 09:31 PM, Ian Malone wrote: On 5 February 2013 20:10, Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't say Fedora follows blindly but rather chooses an upstream from some alternatives (their ability to handle feedback from us beeing

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Ben Rosser
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Luya Tshimbalanga l...@fedoraproject.orgwrote: On 05/02/13 12:09 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: In the Gnome2 days you had choices between functionally similar DEs. Times have changed ... Gnome has been forked multiply (Gnome3, MATE, Cinammon), xfce/enlightenment

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-05 Thread Rave it
Message: 10 Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:21:03 -0800 From: Luya Tshimbalanga l...@fedoraproject.org To: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop Message-ID: 511177bf.1020...@fedoraproject.org

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Martin Sourada
On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 08:34:03 +0100 Kevin Kofler wrote: I wrote: Sandro Mani wrote: 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

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Martin Sourada
On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 06:36:23 +0100 Kevin Kofler wrote: Eric Smith wrote: On 01/28/2013 08:47 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote: I think switching the desktop that has been our default for over 10 years and 18 releases requires just a bit more research and reason than that. ~m I don't

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.atwrote: Matthias Clasen wrote: - Cinnamon started out as 'using GNOME components', but it is [now] a full fork of mutter, gnome-shell and nautilus, at least, and bug-fixes are not going either way... Those are

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:16:58 +0100, Martin Sourada wrote: Big +1. What will an unsuspecting user think when he downloads, burns and tries Fedora on 32bit machine? That it's broken, From what I have reports even Fedora 32-bit does not boot on such machines because nobody tests the bleeding edge

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Stef Walter
On 02/04/2013 06:28 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: I love GNOME 3 and detest KDE 4. I've tried MATE and Cinnamon on both Linux Mint and Fedora and don't really see the point of either of them as long as GNOME 3 offers fallback mode. Fallback mode is going away in F19,

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/04/2013 02:42 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote: On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:16:58 +0100, Martin Sourada wrote: Big +1. What will an unsuspecting user think when he downloads, burns and tries Fedora on 32bit machine? That it's broken, From what I have reports even Fedora 32-bit does not boot on such

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:23:45 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 02/04/2013 02:42 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote: From what I have reports even Fedora 32-bit does not boot on such machines because nobody tests the bleeding edge Fedora kernels on such obsolete hardware. Could you provide more

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Kévin Raymond
Le lundi 04 févr. 2013 à 14:42:35 (+0100), Jan Kratochvil a écrit : On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:16:58 +0100, Martin Sourada wrote: Big +1. What will an unsuspecting user think when he downloads, burns and tries Fedora on 32bit machine? That it's broken, From what I have reports even Fedora

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Kévin Raymond
From what I have reports even Fedora 32-bit does not boot on such machines because nobody tests the bleeding edge Fedora kernels on such obsolete hardware. Could you provide more details? I have Fedora 18 running on several 32bit machines and am wondering what you are referring to. From

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/04/2013 05:47 PM, Kévin Raymond wrote: From what I have reports even Fedora 32-bit does not boot on such machines because nobody tests the bleeding edge Fedora kernels on such obsolete hardware. Could you provide more details? I have Fedora 18 running on several 32bit machines and am

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Martin Sourada
On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 16:34:18 +0100 Jan Kratochvil wrote: Still I believe it is probably true as I doubt Fedora QA tests compatibility with old hosts. Fedora QA AFAIK tests on their own hardware only + virtual machines. I don't know about kernel upstream QA/devs though. I'm running F18 on a

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 06:56 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: 2. Can't we just not have a default? Not really. Others have touched on this, but the websites team really wants the simplicity of a straightforward 'Download' link that gets you a live image, and that pretty

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 18:19 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 02/04/2013 05:47 PM, Kévin Raymond wrote: From what I have reports even Fedora 32-bit does not boot on such machines because nobody tests the bleeding edge Fedora kernels on such obsolete hardware. Could you provide more

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 23:27 +0100, Martin Sourada wrote: On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 16:34:18 +0100 Jan Kratochvil wrote: Still I believe it is probably true as I doubt Fedora QA tests compatibility with old hosts. Fedora QA AFAIK tests on their own hardware only + virtual machines. I don't

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: You're a new Linux user, you go to our download page, and instead of a simple big green Download button, it starts asking you questions about what 'desktop environment' you want? As I said earlier in this thread, and as the Fedora Board

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 20:14 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: You're a new Linux user, you go to our download page, and instead of a simple big green Download button, it starts asking you questions about what 'desktop environment' you want?

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Jon VanAlten
- Original Message - From: Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com To: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 6:53:20 PM Subject: Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 06:56 +0100

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: ...and forcing a choice - possibly between several things they are not familiar with either in detail or in nature - is equally wrong for many people. Probably *more* people. Lots of people don't really care what desktop they get, and lots of people don't know what a

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 20:14 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: You're a new Linux user, you go to our download page, and instead of a simple big green Download button, it starts asking

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 21:49 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: Honestly, what kind of benefit to the community do you expect from a user who gets confused just by looking at a couple nice screenshots and reading some brief explanation? Have you ever met such a person (incapable of understanding two

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Mathieu Bridon
On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 19:36 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 21:49 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: Honestly, what kind of benefit to the community do you expect from a user who gets confused just by looking at a couple nice screenshots and reading some brief explanation?

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 20:35 -0500, Jon VanAlten wrote: tl'dr: Please leave the straw man new users won't be able to decide argument at the door, there's a way around it if we can think about the *best* way to do it, rather than the *worst*. It's not really a straw man, though. Just about

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 02:59 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Adam Williamson wrote: ...and forcing a choice - possibly between several things they are not familiar with either in detail or in nature - is equally wrong for many people. Probably *more* people. Lots of people don't really care what

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Eric Bergen
I decided to check out Fedora again after a few years of using Kubuntu after reading about the MySQL/MariaDB discussion. As a long time KDE and Mac OS user I hope my first experience with gnome-shell will help your discussion. After getting Fedora installed and getting to the basic desktop I

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/05/2013 04:36 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 21:49 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: Honestly, what kind of benefit to the community do you expect from a user who gets confused just by looking at a couple nice screenshots and reading some brief explanation? Have you ever met

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 20:35 -0500, Jon VanAlten wrote: tl'dr: Please leave the straw man new users won't be able to decide argument at the door, there's a way around it if we can think about the *best* way to do it, rather than the

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/05/2013 05:37 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 20:35 -0500, Jon VanAlten wrote: tl'dr: Please leave the straw man new users won't be able to decide argument at the door, there's a way around it if we can think about the *best* way to do it, rather than the *worst*. It's

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/05/2013 05:51 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 02:59 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: , but since you started it: OpenSUSE is doing just fine doing exactly what I suggest (making people actually pick their download). Their download button actually points to a selector, not

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 07:19 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 02/05/2013 05:51 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 02:59 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: , but since you started it: OpenSUSE is doing just fine doing exactly what I suggest (making people actually pick their download).

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/05/2013 07:42 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 07:19 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 02/05/2013 05:51 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 02:59 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: , but since you started it: OpenSUSE is doing just fine doing exactly what I suggest

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: I disagree. Fedora's lack of popularity is largely thanks to these issues. In this context, I feel the Cinnamon request rsp. the give users a choice on DEs attempts are part of an attempt to escape the at least one of

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread drago01
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 02/05/2013 07:42 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 07:19 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 02/05/2013 05:51 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 02:59 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: , but

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Michael Scherer
Le mardi 05 février 2013 à 06:43 +0100, Ralf Corsepius a écrit : I think you are putting too much emphasize on first-timers and seem to be forgetting the Linux distro switcher-users. For them, easily finding the DE they know from their so-far used distro and easily switching between

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-04 Thread Michael Scherer
Le lundi 04 février 2013 à 20:35 -0500, Jon VanAlten a écrit : I don't have a horse in the default desktop race, being one of those weirdo tiling window manager users, which is possibly the exact reason why the idea of not having a default appeals to me. Maybe, if your objection is that the

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-03 Thread Dan Mashal
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Peter Jones pjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 04:25:05AM -0800, Dan Mashal wrote: I'm sure QA, releng, docs, etc will go with what the community decides. Lets have a poll. A very public one. On the main website. Not somebody's blog. And let's

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-03 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Peter Jones pjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 04:25:05AM -0800, Dan Mashal wrote: I'm sure QA, releng, docs, etc will go with what the community decides. Lets have a poll. A very public one. On the main website. Not somebody's blog. And let's

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.02.2013 17:50, schrieb M. Edward (Ed) Borasky: Fedora used to have Smolt and there are tools to figure out what packages people use. There's no reason Fedora *can't* be data driven, but there's a whole lot of business process stuff you'd need to commit to for it to work without wasting

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: data like from smolt are useless! i maintain around 40 fedora-setups which are never touching any fedora-machine because of internal repos and it is countless how many machines are often installed with one ISO download Smolt

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
you believe someone starts smolt manually on a clone to raise up any statistics? not really! fact is you have NO NUMBERS at all for opensource That is not true. We have some numbers. They are not 100% accurate and we never claim it will be. You are misleading users by talking about ISO

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.02.2013 19:18, schrieb Rahul Sundaram: Hi On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: data like from smolt are useless! i maintain around 40 fedora-setups which are never touching any fedora-machine because of internal repos and it is countless how

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-03 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Sun, 2013-02-03 at 17:53 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 03.02.2013 17:50, schrieb M. Edward (Ed) Borasky: Fedora used to have Smolt and there are tools to figure out what packages people use. There's no reason Fedora *can't* be data driven, but there's a whole lot of business process

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.02.2013 20:22, schrieb Pierre-Yves Chibon: On Sun, 2013-02-03 at 17:53 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 03.02.2013 17:50, schrieb M. Edward (Ed) Borasky: Fedora used to have Smolt and there are tools to figure out what packages people use. There's no reason Fedora *can't* be data

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: useful to count what? you need users ACTIVELY use it you need users ACTIVELY use it after dist-upgrades This isn't true. There is a cron job that continues to keep the profile updated the only thing smolt stats are showing is

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: I love GNOME 3 and detest KDE 4. I've tried MATE and Cinnamon on both Linux Mint and Fedora and don't really see the point of either of them as long as GNOME 3 offers fallback mode. Fallback mode is going away in F19, it's already gone upstream. When you come

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Eric Smith wrote: On 01/28/2013 08:47 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote: I think switching the desktop that has been our default for over 10 years and 18 releases requires just a bit more research and reason than that. ~m I don't disagree with the more research and reason part, but the current

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Sandro Mani wrote: 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

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthias Clasen wrote: - Cinnamon started out as 'using GNOME components', but it is [now] a full fork of mutter, gnome-shell and nautilus, at least, and bug-fixes are not going either way... Those are applications which form the workspace, not random components. I'm fairly sure that when

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Adam Williamson wrote: 2. Can't we just not have a default? Not really. Others have touched on this, but the websites team really wants the simplicity of a straightforward 'Download' link that gets you a live image, and that pretty much requires a default desktop. And just because the

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jaroslav Reznik wrote: = Features/Cinnamon as Default Desktop = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Cinnamon_as_Default_Desktop Feature owner(s): Eric Smith e...@brouhaha.com This feature proposes that Fedora switch the default desktop interface from Gnome 3 to Cinnamon. Cinnamon

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
I wrote: Sandro Mani wrote: 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

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-01 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On 2013-01-29, 22:52 GMT, Michael Scherer wrote: I am delighted to announce you that Red Hat has a policy of not tolerating drugs on the work place. So you should be utterly relieved to know that no people posting here with a @redhat.com email should

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-01 Thread Tom Hughes
On 01/02/13 17:20, Paul Wouters wrote: Now if only cannot display date with the time in top panel could be a gnome3 blocker bug, that would be one less gnome3 issue. You know you can turn the date on with gnome-tweak-tool right? or just with this: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-01 Thread Jerry James
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Paul Wouters pwout...@redhat.com wrote: Now if only cannot display date with the time in top panel could be a gnome3 blocker bug, that would be one less gnome3 issue. The other major one of notifications being seemingly overengineered while still being pretty

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Paul Wouters wrote: Now if only cannot display date with the time in top panel could be a gnome3 blocker bug, that would be one less gnome3 issue. The other major one of notifications being seemingly overengineered while still being pretty useless

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-02-01 Thread Peter Jones
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 04:25:05AM -0800, Dan Mashal wrote: I'm sure QA, releng, docs, etc will go with what the community decides. Lets have a poll. A very public one. On the main website. Not somebody's blog. And let's let the users decide what they want. Do we have any significant data

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-31 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 04:23:43PM -0500, TK009 wrote: From where I sit, I am not convinced the Gnome team did any of that either beyond lip service. 6 versions to return shutdown speaks for itself. I saw this negativity was also on Phoronix, where someone else commented in a similar way: Are

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-31 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:06:51AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 31.01.2013 09:55, schrieb Olav Vitters: On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 04:23:43PM -0500, TK009 wrote: From where I sit, I am not convinced the Gnome team did any of that either beyond lip service. 6 versions to return shutdown

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-31 Thread Tom Callaway
On 01/28/2013 12:45 PM, Richard Marko wrote: On 01/28/2013 05:56 PM, inode0 wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics#Total_repository_connections I'm wondering if there was an effort to provide package usage statistics for Fedora. Having such data might be valuable when there's a

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-30 Thread drago01
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 5:31 AM, Orcan Ogetbil oget.fed...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:27 AM, drago01 wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Sandro Mani wrote: Can't we simply re-organize the fedoraproject website in such way that the download button points to something

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-30 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Jiri Eischmann eischm...@redhat.com wrote: Polls are not a good way to find out what the majority wants. Because the subset of users that usually participate in such polls don't represent the whole user base. It's just not a statistically representative sample.

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-30 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 4:13 AM, Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On 01/29/2013 04:59 PM, Eric Smith wrote: I don't disagree with the more research and reason part, but the current default desktop has only been our default for four releases, F15 through F18. I don't recall any

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-30 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Aleksandar Kurtakov akurt...@redhat.com wrote: Regarding Cinnamon as Default Desktop - how many active contributors do really take care of Cinnamon packaging? I don't think that anything that has less than 3-4 can even be considered. Last time I checked the

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-30 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Jaroslav Reznik jrez...@redhat.com wrote: = Features/Cinnamon as Default Desktop = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Cinnamon_as_Default_Desktop Feature owner(s): Eric Smith e...@brouhaha.com Most if not all packages are actually owned by Leigh Scott,

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-30 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 01/30/2013 01:05 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: Actually a lot of research and reason went into GNOME 3's development [1], That's about as relevant as a lot of coding went into $project, which is... not a whole lot when considering which project to make the default. But every release is not a

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-30 Thread Dan Mashal
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Miloslav Trmač m...@volny.cz wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Jaroslav Reznik jrez...@redhat.com wrote: = Features/Cinnamon as Default Desktop = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Cinnamon_as_Default_Desktop Feature owner(s): Eric Smith

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-30 Thread TK009
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.org wrote: But every release is not a decision point, which desktop will we make default this time? I believe it is a point where review where are we are, and where we would like to be, now and in the future. Certainly it is

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-30 Thread Michael scherer
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:09:07AM -0800, Dan Mashal wrote: I spoke with Clem Lefebvre (creator of Linux Mint) last night they have a great upstream core of developers. With all due respect, and after having looked to a bit of various mint source code ( mint-foo tools and various cinnamon

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-30 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2013-01-29, 22:52 GMT, Michael Scherer wrote: I am delighted to announce you that Red Hat has a policy of not tolerating drugs on the work place. So you should be utterly relieved to know that no people posting here with a @redhat.com email should be under the influence of any serious

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-30 Thread Matej Cepl
On 2013-01-29, 00:50 GMT, Adam Williamson wrote: My entirely personal take on this is that I don't really care that much, but I don't see a convincing case for the change. My personal take on this (just that everybody seems to have to have an opinion on this): a) one of the most important

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 23:15:55 +0100, Matej Cepl mc...@redhat.com wrote: On 2013-01-29, 22:52 GMT, Michael Scherer wrote: I am delighted to announce you that Red Hat has a policy of not tolerating drugs on the work place. So you should be utterly relieved to know that no people posting here

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-30 Thread Christopher Meng
This topic seems becoming useless. If possible, I think me and other ambassadors will take a survey in China. ;) Ps. I agreed Matej' b opinion. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Dan Mashal
On Monday, January 28, 2013, Máirín Duffy wrote: On Mon 28 Jan 2013 02:17:29 PM EST, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Going away isn't the correct phrase. The UI of Fallback Mode is going to transition to a new feature called Classic Mode. It's an official feature of Gnome 3.8.

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Dan Mashal
On Monday, January 28, 2013, Máirín Duffy wrote: On 01/28/2013 02:06 AM, Dan Mashal wrote: You don't see the point of MATE or Cinnamon? How long did you play with them 5 minutes? Do you remember the GNOME 1.x = 2.x transition? Similarly to how there are forks of GNOME now to 'keep the

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