On Mar 4, 2014 8:35 PM, "Matthias Clasen" mclasen@redhat.com wrote:
On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 19:59 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
Hi All,
During the default DE discussions, a number of WG members expressed interest in keeping KDE as a release blocking DE for Workstation. QA is now asking FESCo about KDE's status as well in https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1243
So if KDE is going to be a release blocking DE for Workstation, we need to figure out how exactly it gets installed and what manner it would be tested in. In the above ticket I came up with the following:
install the Workstation live image, install KDE through software-installer (if necessary), log into KDE from GDM after install, test
Yes, that is roughly what Christian outlined as the vision for alternative desktops and the workstation. Note that the software installer does not currently have the required functionality (install alternative desktops or other large sets of related software like, say, 'Ruby support').
So is that something feasible for the first release of Workstation or is that likely to come later?
I don't think that any of the alternative desktops should be release blocking, though.
I expect there will be differing opinions in the WG on that point.
However, that was entirely off the top of my head. Would the live image be large enough to contain the KDE Workstation already or would a user/QA tester need to install it through the software-installer? What tests should be done? Etc.
And I don't think there should be a 'KDE workstation'.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply something separate. I meant "the commonly themed and integrated KDE DE".
josh