On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com wrote:
On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 17:19 -0400, Ray Strode wrote:
Hi,
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Well, it's less Fedora-y in that we used to have this kind of conception where there were desktop environments, controlled by the desktop team.
Fedora desktop team has only ever controlled the desktop spin, which uses GNOME. Other SIGs have controlled other desktops since there have been spins.
Then the login manager, system config tools, and probably some other stuff I'm not thinking of were controlled more or less by the distribution.
what do you mean by "the distribution" ? We all work on the distribution right?
Well sure, but we kinda felt a project wide responsibility that those tools should work, because they were Our Tools For Making Stuff Work.
Now no-one really works on a lot of the s-c* tools, partly because 'GNOME replaced them'.
Well it seems that nobody cares enough to do that work. So either it is not that important for the other desktop environments (user prefer to do do the configuration using other tools / text editors) or there is simply no one that cares enough *and* has the ability to step and do the work.
So if anything this is a manpower problem, not a problem with desktop integration. Configuration tools that are part of and integrated into the desktop do offer a better and consistent user experience, so for desktop that doesn't have their own integrated solution (which they should have IMO) the solution might be to join forces and try to work on common tools.