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Don't dare to question Gnome (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was wondering what happened to the proposal from a month ago....

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I understood Matthew’s position as “this should be discussed in the Workstation WG first”, not as a “no”

And later he said it's not up to the community but the Fedora Council which at least partially consists of unelected Red Hat-appointed people and all decisions need to be on a consensus-basis, so a single corporate-appointed person can veto everything. FESCO (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee) is democratic, Fedora Council is not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I'm not sure I follow... Did the Fedora Council actually take a decision?

[+] [email protected] -6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The Fedora leadership is elected the the community. Also most the community does not want to deal with KDE. KDE is great for power users and people who like customization. Outside of that most people want stability and simplicity both of which KDE is not.

The other issue is the installer and the enterprise. If Fedora switched to KDE by default then the downstream distros would need to as well as Fedora is the testing ground for RHEL, Rocky and Alma. I can't imagine anyone wanting to run KDE on a server or corporate workstation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

The Fedora leadership is elected the the community.

"The Fedora Council is composed of a mix of representatives from different areas of the project, named roles appointed by Red Hat, and a variable number of seats connected to medium-term project goals." --https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/

Also most the community does not want to deal with KDE.

Too bad we can't know this for sure because the discussion and a vote was shut down. The leader was clearly afraid of the possible outcome. No need to "drop the mic" if it was actually so clear cut.

Outside of that most people want stability and simplicity both of which KDE is not.

Baseless claims.

The other issue is the installer and the enterprise. If Fedora switched to KDE by default then the downstream distros would need to as well as Fedora is the testing ground for RHEL, Rocky and Alma.

Wrong. Fedora switched to btrfs as well despite the fact that it's unsupported by RHEL. Outside the RH sphere of influence, openSUSE manages to offer Plasma equally next to Gnome even though Gnome is default in SLE.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I can't imagine anyone wanting to run KDE on a server or corporate workstation.

While I generally agree that there's probably not much appetite among the distributions for switching default, this point seems weird. I don't see why KDE would be any less desired than Gnome in that segment.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago

Customization is usually the enemy of reliability and supportability