Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Dan Mashal
On Tuesday, January 29, 2013, Dan Mashal wrote: 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

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Marcela Mašláňová
On 01/27/2013 03:53 PM, 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

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread drago01
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Dan Mashal
On Monday, January 28, 2013, Matthias Clasen wrote: - Original Message - = Features/Cinnamon as Default Desktop = I submit the proposition that it is easier for a user doing a new Fedora install to start with a traditional desktop, and switch to the Gnome Shell if they

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Martin Sourada
Hi Dan, On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:52:03 -0800 Dan Mashal wrote: Lets all listen to Miami because she did a great job with anaconda 18 UI design, knows more than Linus, Alan Cox and is absolutely right on everything! Now, as much as I strongly disagree with the UI changes anaconda made in

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 04:13:34AM -0800, Dan Mashal wrote: Let's see how lightweight, bug free and usable it is. Why don't you just merge the 3 projects instead of wasting your time? We could all work together. MATE developers actually have GNOME git accounts now. There could be different

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Dan Mashal
On Tuesday, January 29, 2013, Marcela Mašláňová wrote: On 01/27/2013 03:53 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: = Features/Cinnamon as Default Desktop = https://fedoraproject.org/**wiki/Features/Cinnamon_as_**Default_Desktophttps://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Cinnamon_as_Default_Desktop Feature

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Jon Ciesla
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Martin Sourada
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:27:42 -0500 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 Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 03:52:03AM -0800, Dan Mashal wrote: On Monday, January 28, 2013, M�ir�n 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

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Marcela Mašláňová
On 01/29/2013 01:25 PM, Dan Mashal wrote: On Tuesday, January 29, 2013, Marcela Mašláňová wrote: On 01/27/2013 03:53 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: = Features/Cinnamon as Default Desktop = https://fedoraproject.org/__wiki/Features/Cinnamon_as___Default_Desktop

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Dan Mashal
On Tuesday, January 29, 2013, Olav Vitters wrote: MATE developers actually have GNOME git accounts now. I know that. GNOME classic is not the same as a fallback mode. I am skeptical. MATE did not have that much development, nor that many developers if you compare it to the amount of

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Marcela Mašláňová
On 01/29/2013 12:53 PM, Dan Mashal wrote: On Tuesday, January 29, 2013, Dan Mashal wrote: 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

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 04:36:22AM -0800, Dan Mashal wrote: On Tuesday, January 29, 2013, Olav Vitters wrote: MATE developers actually have GNOME git accounts now. I know that. GNOME classic is not the same as a fallback mode. I am skeptical. That is not what I meant. Fallback was

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Mathieu Bridon
On 01/29/2013 08:25 PM, Dan Mashal wrote: I'm sure QA, releng, docs, etc will go with what the community decides. Why would they? They are community too, they don't have to follow on what other decide, they are free to go on working on the QA and docs of GNOME if they prefer, just like you

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Dan Mashal
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Mathieu Bridon boche...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On 01/29/2013 08:25 PM, Dan Mashal wrote: I'm sure QA, releng, docs, etc will go with what the community decides. Why would they? They are community too, they don't have to follow on what other decide, they

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Jiri Eischmann
Dan Mashal píše v Út 29. 01. 2013 v 04:25 -0800: I'll tell you what, last time I checked #1 spin is KDE. 1. because the Desktop spin is not included in the counter. 2. I doubt those numbers are accurate. Only 54 downloads of Xfce spin for this release? I hope you understand it's completely out

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Thomas Bendler
2013/1/29 Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl [...] I've seen the changes that various GNOME developers as well as Red Hat employees have made. I've seen GNOME developers trying to understand issues and make changes. I've even tried to summarize this in various release notes. Now I'm not sure who

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/27/2013 03:53 PM, 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

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Jon Ciesla
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Mathieu Bridon boche...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On 01/29/2013 08:25 PM, Dan Mashal wrote: I'm sure QA, releng, docs, etc will go with what the community decides. Why would they?

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Christopher Meng
Funny...I suggest that we can submit a changing desktop feature per release. Maybe this is the best solution. -- 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 Frank Murphy
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:56:17 +0800 Christopher Meng cicku...@gmail.com wrote: Funny...I suggest that we can submit a changing desktop feature per release. Maybe this is the best solution. No, it's not a Screensaver. -- Regards, Frank http//www.frankly3d.com -- devel mailing list

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 29.1.2013 14:56, Christopher Meng napsal(a): Funny...I suggest that we can submit a changing desktop feature per release. Maybe this is the best solution. It might be nice extension to different wallpaper in every release ;) Vít -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/29/2013 01:38 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 01/27/2013 03:53 PM, 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

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2013/1/29 Vít Ondruch vondr...@redhat.com: Dne 29.1.2013 14:56, Christopher Meng napsal(a): Funny...I suggest that we can submit a changing desktop feature per release. Maybe this is the best solution. It might be nice extension to different wallpaper in every release ;) How about

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Jon Ciesla
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Michał Piotrowski mkkp...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/1/29 Vít Ondruch vondr...@redhat.com: Dne 29.1.2013 14:56, Christopher Meng napsal(a): Funny...I suggest that we can submit a changing desktop feature per release. Maybe this is the best solution.

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread drago01
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Michał Piotrowski mkkp...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/1/29 Vít Ondruch vondr...@redhat.com: Dne 29.1.2013 14:56, Christopher Meng napsal(a): Funny...I suggest that we can submit a changing desktop feature per release. Maybe this is the best solution. It might

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Pierre-Yves Chibon
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 05:17:20AM -0800, Dan Mashal wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Jiri Eischmann eischm...@redhat.com wrote: Dan Mashal píše v Út 29. 01. 2013 v 04:25 -0800: I'll tell you what, last time I checked #1 spin is KDE. 1. because the Desktop spin is not included in

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
- Original Message - From: Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com To: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 2:13:34 PM Subject: Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop On Monday, January 28, 2013

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Jon Ciesla
F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop On Monday, January 28, 2013, Matthias Clasen wrote: - Original Message - = Features/Cinnamon as Default Desktop = I submit the proposition that it is easier for a user doing a new Fedora install to start

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
- Original Message - From: Jon Ciesla limburg...@gmail.com To: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 4:58:11 PM Subject: Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:47 AM

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:10:03 -0500, Aleksandar Kurtakov akurt...@redhat.com wrote: Nor I wanted it to be - Fight fire with fire! People that start personal attacks on fedora-devel list should be BANNED. People should not fight people behaving badly be emulating their behavior. It is

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
- Original Message - From: Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to To: Aleksandar Kurtakov akurt...@redhat.com Cc: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 6:08:29 PM Subject: Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Kevin Fenzi
, January 29, 2013 6:08:29 PM Subject: Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:10:03 -0500, Aleksandar Kurtakov akurt...@redhat.com wrote: Nor I wanted it to be - Fight fire with fire! People that start personal attacks on fedora-devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 29.01.13 04:13, Dan Mashal (dan.mas...@gmail.com) wrote: There could be different flavors of Gnome. Now I know that we are both biased here, however what it really feels like here is REDHAT employees want Gnome 3 and they are giving a bunch of bullshit excuses on You know, Red Hat

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 14:13 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 01/29/2013 01:38 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 01/27/2013 03:53 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: = Features/Cinnamon as Default Desktop = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Cinnamon_as_Default_Desktop Feature owner(s):

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Eric Smith
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 default desktop has only

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Eric Smith
On 01/29/2013 05:25 AM, Dan Mashal wrote: 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. I'll tell you what, last time I checked #1 spin is KDE. I like that idea. It's ultimately up to FESCo to decide, but a

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Eric Smith
On 01/28/2013 09:27 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: The gnome desktop certainly isn't perfect but I see a lot more users using it than most of the rest of the other options. That's selection bias. It's the default, so of course it's going to get more users. That doesn't necessarily mean that they

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/29/2013 12:50 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 14:53 +, 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 Just some input on a few things

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Eric Smith
On 01/28/2013 09:56 AM, inode0 wrote: After four releases it isn't bad to step back and take a look at how things are working out. I hope we can do that with an eye to where we want to go in the future rather than looking to the past. I couldn't have said it better. I'm much more concerned

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Michael Scherer
Dear Dan, Le mardi 29 janvier 2013 à 04:13 -0800, Dan Mashal a écrit : Now I know that we are both biased here, however what it really feels like here is REDHAT If I may interrupt you, that's written in 2 words, Red Hat. Not wanting to deviate from your discourse with my rambling about the

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 23:52 +0100, Michael Scherer wrote: And then we wonder why MATE and Cinnamon got the most press coverage in Fedora 18 and why there has been a huge user spike in the last 30 days. It hasn't been because of systemd, Gnome 3.6, and Anaconda 18. You are on serious drugs

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
Reading the topic about Cinnamon as Default Desktop. For my view, Cinnamon is nothing more than a heavily tweaked Gnome Shell based on reactive feeling. It only duplicated the effort already covered by Gnome development. Issue like nautilus removal of some functionality could be resolved by

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Jens Petersen
How about doing a Cinnamon Spin at least for F19? -- 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 Máirín Duffy
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 serious research and reason having been involved in the switch that occurred when

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-29 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
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 similar to the current More options page, maybe with a small description for

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Nikos Roussos
On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 14:53 +, 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

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/27/2013 02:53 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: = Features/Cinnamon as Default Desktop = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Cinnamon_as_Default_Desktop We should be moving away from having a default rather then switching it. JBG -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Dan Mashal
On Monday, January 28, 2013, Nikos Roussos wrote: On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 14:53 +, 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

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Nikos Roussos
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 +, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: The Gnome 3 interface is substantially different that the traditional desktop interfaces on

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Michał Piotrowski
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 +, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: The Gnome 3 interface is substantially different that the

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Aleksandar Kurtakov
- Original Message - From: Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 10:04:29 AM Subject: Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop On 01/27/2013 02:53 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: = Features/Cinnamon

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Sandro Mani
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

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Michał Piotrowski
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

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Frank Murphy
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:14:22 +0100 Sandro Mani manisan...@gmail.com 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

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Jan Kratochvil
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:22:16 +0100, Nikos Roussos wrote: 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. Could we make a web poll for preferred desktop and make the top

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Florian Weimer
On 01/28/2013 11:01 AM, Jan Kratochvil wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:22:16 +0100, Nikos Roussos wrote: 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. Could we make a web

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Sandro Mani
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Jan Kratochvil jan.kratoch...@redhat.comwrote: Could we make a web poll for preferred desktop and make the top one the Fedora default? (default = link Download now! on http://fedoraproject.org ) If it is Gnome 3 Shell then fine but AFAIK it won't be Gnome

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Michael Scherer
Le lundi 28 janvier 2013 à 09:56 +0100, Michał Piotrowski a écrit : 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. For one, if there is 85% of a

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2013/1/28 Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org: Le lundi 28 janvier 2013 à 09:56 +0100, Michał Piotrowski a écrit : 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

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On 01/28/13 10:07, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote: - Original Message - On 01/27/2013 02:53 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: = Features/Cinnamon as Default Desktop = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Cinnamon_as_Default_Desktop We should be moving away from having a default rather then

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Matthias Clasen
- Original Message - = Features/Cinnamon as Default Desktop = I submit the proposition that it is easier for a user doing a new Fedora install to start with a traditional desktop, and switch to the Gnome Shell if they prefer that, than to start with Gnome Shell and switch to a

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread drago01
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Sandro Mani manisan...@gmail.com 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 /

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Josh Boyer
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Matthias Clasen mcla...@redhat.com wrote: - Original Message - = Features/Cinnamon as Default Desktop = I submit the proposition that it is easier for a user doing a new Fedora install to start with a traditional desktop, and switch to the Gnome

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Máirín Duffy
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 GNOME 2 candle burning,' there were forks of GNOME 1.x to

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Matthias Clasen
- Original Message - Some facts: - Cinnamon started out as 'using GNOME components', but it is not a full fork of mutter, gnome-shell and nautilus, at least, and bug-fixes are not going either way... Did you mean ... but it is now a full fork... ? Yes, thats what I meant.

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Jon Ciesla
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.orgwrote: 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

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.org 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

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread inode0
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.org 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

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Pete Travis
On Jan 28, 2013 9:56 AM, inode0 ino...@gmail.com wrote: (snip) I'm happy to see renewed discussion about the future of the Fedora desktop. After four releases it isn't bad to step back and take a look at how things are working out. I hope we can do that with an eye to where we want to go in

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Máirín Duffy
On 01/28/2013 11:56 AM, inode0 wrote: What concerns me isn't that Linus and Alan don't like it. To be fair Linus (more quietly) went back to GNOME 3 after his initial loud complaints. He is still using it since he just posted that he was to G+ yesterday. ~m -- devel mailing list

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Richard Marko
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 disagreement of what is popular/widely used. --

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:26:14 -0500, you wrote: On 01/28/2013 11:56 AM, inode0 wrote: What concerns me isn't that Linus and Alan don't like it. To be fair Linus (more quietly) went back to GNOME 3 after his initial loud complaints. He is still using it since he just posted that he was to G+

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Allan Day
Hey Pete, Pete Travis li...@petetravis.com wrote: I'm happy to see renewed discussion about the future of the Fedora desktop. After four releases it isn't bad to step back and take a look at how things are working out. I hope we can do that with an eye to where we want to go in the future

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Maros Zatko
On 01/28/2013 06:49 PM, Gerald Henriksen wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:26:14 -0500, you wrote: On 01/28/2013 11:56 AM, inode0 wrote: What concerns me isn't that Linus and Alan don't like it. To be fair Linus (more quietly) went back to GNOME 3 after his initial loud complaints. He is still

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 07:49:59PM +0100, Maros Zatko wrote: I've used gnome 2.x, when 3.x came out I had no other option than to (finally) switch to tiling since my beloved DE was gone and not going back. If you're the sort of person that wants a tiling window manager, then I think it's fair

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 19:49:59 +0100, Maros Zatko mza...@redhat.com wrote: I've used gnome 2.x, when 3.x came out I had no other option than to (finally) switch to tiling since my beloved DE was gone and not going back. Other options I've tried (XFCE was some of them) had either some child

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Bruno Wolff III wrote: Forced fallback mode still works through F18. I find it provides me what I want from gnome2. It will be almost certainly going away in F19 (but hasn't yet in rawhide), but there is talk of providing something similar via a gnome-shell extension. Going away isn't the

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Máirín Duffy
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

2013-01-28 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 28 January 2013 12:27, Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.org 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

2013-01-28 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/28/2013 07:27 PM, 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

2013-01-28 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.orgwrote: Won't the new GNOME 3 classic mode effectively render Cinnamon, MATE, and friends obsolete? gnome-classic-session is in Rawhide and I expect it will satisfy some users but not at all. In particular, there are

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 06:45:10PM +0100, 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

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 01/28/2013 02:57 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: We could just import Debian popcon. It's free software after all ... http://popcon.debian.org/ You can't just import it. openSUSE has a port that uses RPM but I don't know whats the status of that Rahul -- devel mailing list

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Michael Scherer
Le lundi 28 janvier 2013 à 18:45 +0100, Richard Marko a écrit : 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

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 02:27:42PM -0500, 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

2013-01-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 14:53 +, 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 Just some input on a few things that have been raised in this thread: 1. What

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-28 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, 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 opinion is that a lot of the 'GNOME sucks and everyone's switching to Cinnamon / MATE!' stuff in the press is inaccurate; whenever I see actual people

Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-27 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
= 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 provides a desktop interface that

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-27 Thread Álvaro Castillo
I don't think Cinnamon as default desktop. Fedora always was of GNOME by default Desktop. However, I have to choose, I would choose KDE as default desktop. On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Jaroslav Reznik jrez...@redhat.com wrote: = Features/Cinnamon as Default Desktop =

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-27 Thread Josh Boyer
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 9:53 AM, 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 This feature proposes that Fedora switch the default desktop

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-27 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - I don't think Cinnamon as default desktop. Fedora always was of GNOME by default Desktop. However, I have to choose, I would choose KDE as default desktop. From the times Kevin proposed Plasma as default desktop - and the rest of KDE SIG did not support it -

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-27 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
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. When you come right down to it, nearly all Linux desktops can be easily customized to provide a Windows-like

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-27 Thread Christopher Meng
Well, maybe the result is nobody will support openbox as default. Your words make me think why users hate Linux desktops... :) -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-27 Thread Dan Mashal
On Sunday, January 27, 2013, 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. When you come right down to it, nearly all Linux

Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

2013-01-27 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
= 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 provides a desktop interface that

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