Re: 3.20 Headline Features

[Oliver Propst <oliver propst gmail com>]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Allan Day <aday gnome org> wrote:

Questions and discussion

• Wayland is a tricky sell - it is unlikely that distributions will switch to it by default for this release, and there are some missing bits and pieces.
  

+1, Actually think we should be (very) careful with having Wayland as a selling point, right now at least. This fedora mailning list thread provide some interesting insights [1], and [2] ("pending section"), which I guess motivates why fedora choosed not to enable Wayland by default for its next release .

1 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop%40lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/KL4TW7D263BL56HO7RGEODSYFRSTISYX/
2 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Wayland_features

 

• XDG app isn't particularly a user facing feature at this stage. The most relevant new feature is the availability of nightly apps [1]. However, these nightly builds don't get much attention, and they require the command line to install, so are somewhat technical. In general I don't like selling user features if they require a terminal!
  

+1, understand this project is (still) in a very early stage.

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-mvh Oliver Propst