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= Features/Cinnamon as Default Desktop =
I submit the proposition that it is easier for a user doing a new
Fedora
install to start with a traditional desktop, and switch to the Gnome
Shell if
they prefer that, than to start with Gnome Shell and switch to a
traditional
desktop.
The Cinnamon desktop provides a traditional desktop while being based
on the
latest Gnome and GTK components, so it seems like a better candidate
for a
default desktop than MATE, which is based on older components.
Some facts:
- Cinnamon started out as 'using GNOME components', but it is not a full fork of
mutter, gnome-shell and nautilus, at least, and bug-fixes are not going either way...
- GNOME 3.8 will replace the dismal fallback mode with a new 'classic' mode that
is actually based on the latest GNOME components, and will be a more 'traditional
desktop', whatever that means.