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 possibly sorted by popularity, i.e. number of downloads?
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Michał Piotrowski <mkkp...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 +0000, 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 >> > into new user interface concepts, many users prefer to have a >> traditional >> > interface that they are accustomed to. Unfortunately it is difficult or >> > impossible to assess what fraction of the user base prefers Gnome Shell >> vs. a >> > more traditional interface. >> >> Exactly. There is no way to know that. So I see no real reason to change >> our default desktop. >> Even if we consider Gnome 3 as a "research" (which I don't), Fedora is >> known to adopt innovative technologies. >> >> >> -- >> Nikos Roussos >> comzeradd @ freenode.net >> >> -- >> devel mailing list >> devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >> >> >> >> Innovative. >> >> >> >> "Innovative" or "deevolutionary", "boring", or just plain "annoying"? >> They can all be used in different ways. What you might consider >> "innovative" a lot of people consider annoying. >> >> >> 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. >> > > 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." > > >> -- >> Nikos Roussos <http://roussos.cc> >> comzeradd @ freenode.net >> >> -- >> devel mailing list >> devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >> > > > > -- > Best regards, > Michal > > http://eventhorizon.pl/ > https://getactive.pl/ > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >
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