OK I haven't read the entire thread so maybe someone else mentioned this but, if Gnome looses it's support from major distributions out there (Ubuntu, Mint and for the sake of the argument let's say Fedora) how do you think that will reflect on Gnome development and what would become of "DE's" that are based on Gnome such as Cinnamon and Unity. THIS is why I wasn't too keen on distro's having their own DE's/WM. And right now, if someone asked me what DE/Distro should I use for deployment in enterprise enviroment I wouldn't know what to say, Xfce probably on Ubuntu or Fedora or Debian with Gnome 2.
Xfce dev's will profit from all of this, their code base is relatively small and easy to maintain, they don't rush the features in and you are more or less certain that what you are using today won't change in the near future that much. And they are light on the hardware requirements wich is very important in the enterprise segment.
I, for one, don't like GS or G3 for that matter, but nevertheless I think that Fedora shouldn't change anything and continue to ship G3 as a default desktop enviroment and to show strong support for it's respins.
Xfce dev's will profit from all of this, their code base is relatively small and easy to maintain, they don't rush the features in and you are more or less certain that what you are using today won't change in the near future that much. And they are light on the hardware requirements wich is very important in the enterprise segment.
I, for one, don't like GS or G3 for that matter, but nevertheless I think that Fedora shouldn't change anything and continue to ship G3 as a default desktop enviroment and to show strong support for it's respins.
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