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

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[-] stuner@lemmy.world 37 points 6 months ago

I understood Matthew's position as "this should be discussed in the Workstation WG first", not as a "no":

in favor of the process outlined above (tl;dr: talk to the Workstation WG, and if that does not come to a satisfying outcome, file a Council ticket for next possibilities).

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It also seemed more likely that they would promote KDE without demoting Gnome.

But was there a follow-up on that (e.g. in the Workstation WG)?

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] stuner@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

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

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago

Crazy... so much about the best Distro, huh?

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Crazy… so much about the best Distro, huh?

IMO Fedora is still a great distribution, IMO even the best for beginners. Just because certain Gnome-affiliated people are insufferable doesn't change that (at least not for now). From my point of view it would have been completely fine to discuss that, hold a vote, and if Gnome comes out on top, then fine. But with the changing landscape with Steam Deck and with it more development resources flowing into KDE technologies and also many more mainstream people having their first Linux desktop contact through Steam Deck's Desktop Mode (=KDE Plasma), I think it's totally fair to hold a discussion, similar to when Debian discussed Gnome vs Xfce years ago and Gnome came out on top because of offering the best accessibility features.

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Lol GNOME vs XFCE, that was absolutely the right decision XD

GNOME is worlds better. But KDE "Plasma" (I hate this name) was like "this is how Windows should look like"

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Lol GNOME vs XFCE, that was absolutely the right decision XD

GNOME is worlds better.

And that decision wasn't about which is better liked by the majority. It was (I'm paraphrasing) "the default shouldn't put up hurdles for people with disabilities. Gnome supports accessibility techs X, Y, Z. Xfce only tech X." That's an objective metric. The same metric could still hold up for Gnome vs Plasma. Gnome might be ahead in that regard. I don't know the current state. I know that years ago (Plasma 4.x days) adding a Japanese IME under Fedora Gnome was super easy thanks to PackageKit integration of the IME settings of Gnome while under Fedora's Plasma session it was pretty much all manual configuration. Best out of the box accessibility is a metric I would wholeheartedly support even though my personal interest would prioritize gaming performance over screen readers because I simply don't need the latter.

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago

I didnt test GNOME or KDE for accessibility but I know KDE 5.27 had various different zoom features while GNOME doesnt.

Orca runs on both but no idea where better.

Both are using Wayland on Fedora and that is pretty problematic poorly, as all apps are different and I assume many dont support the correct portal/API/push service for screenreaders.

The rest seems integration. KDE and GNOME use Packagekit on traditional Fedora.

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