Latest revision as of 23:27, 15 January 2025

Promote KDE Plasma Desktop variant to Edition

This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux.
This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.

Summary

This Change is about promoting the Fedora KDE Desktop deliverables to Edition status.

Owner

Name: Neal Gompa, Davide Cavalca, Carl Schwan, Marc Deop, Troy Dawson, Steve Cossette
Email: ngompa13@gmail.com, davide@cavalca.name, carl@carlschwan.eu, marcdeop@fedoraproject.org, tdawson@redhat.com, farchord@gmail.com
Responsible Teams: KDE SIG, Personal Systems WG

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora Linux 42
Last updated: 2025-01-15
Announced
Discussion thread
FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

As approved by Fedora Council, this promotes the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop variant to full Edition status.

As the variant is already release-blocking, this is mainly a change for adjusting how the KDE Desktop variant is presented and promoted.

We have identified the following focus areas to market the KDE Plasma Desktop Edition:

Multimedia enthusiasts (AV and gaming particularly see: VRR on Wayland or DRM Leasing)
Content creators (aligning with KDE/Qt software in this space such as Kdenlive, Krita, and OBS Studio)
Accessibility (aligning with upstream work to make the Linux desktop friendlier to folks of various impairments such as [color]blindness, limited dexterity, and limited motor control)
Personalization (aligning with KDE Plasma features for customizing the desktop experience)

The details of how this will be done are in the process of being fleshed out.

Feedback

Benefit to Fedora

This makes Fedora stand out among the major Linux distributions by promoting the KDE Plasma Desktop as a flagship experience and signals a strong commitment to the KDE community by rewarding the current success of the Fedora KDE community and supporting its continued growth.

Scope

Proposal owners:
- Split KDE Desktop variant out of Spins section in pungi-fedora
- Work with websites team to introduce KDE Plasma Desktop Edition information on the main site
- Bring online initial Personal Systems WG documentation site

Other developers: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Release engineering: #12533

Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Trademark approval: Done.

Alignment with the Fedora Strategy: Yes
- This aligns with broadening our success with Editions (Fedora.next) and establishing a story around Fedora KDE to market more broadly.

Upgrade/compatibility impact

None. This is mainly a marketing change.

How To Test

Nothing to test as this is mainly a marketing change.

User Experience

The main change will be the Fedora website showing the KDE Plasma Desktop Edition alongside Workstation and others.

Dependencies

N/A.

Contingency Plan

Contingency mechanism: Defer to next release
Contingency deadline: Final Freeze
Blocks release? Yes

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release Notes

Fedora Linux 42 promotes the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop variant to full Edition status.

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 == Summary ==
-This Change is about promoting the Fedora KDE Desktop Spin to the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition.
+This Change is about promoting the Fedora KDE Desktop deliverables to Edition status.
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-* Name: [[User:Ngompa| Neal Gompa]], [[User:Dcavalca| Davide Cavalca]], [[User:Carlschwan| Carl Schwan]], [[User:Marcdeop| Marc Deop]], [[User:Tdawson| Troy Dawson]]
+* Name: [[User:Ngompa| Neal Gompa]], [[User:Dcavalca| Davide Cavalca]], [[User:Carlschwan| Carl Schwan]], [[User:Marcdeop| Marc Deop]], [[User:Tdawson| Troy Dawson]], [[User:Farchord| Steve Cossette]]
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-* Email: ngompa13@gmail.com, davide@cavalca.name, carl@carlschwan.eu, marcdeop@fedoraproject.org, tdawson@redhat.com
+* Email: ngompa13@gmail.com, davide@cavalca.name, carl@carlschwan.eu, marcdeop@fedoraproject.org, tdawson@redhat.com, farchord@gmail.com
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 * Responsible Teams: KDE SIG, Personal Systems WG
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-* [<link to devel-announce post will be added by Wrangler> Announced]
+* [https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/Z4OUEM7OHGKBRKWPXRVZKK2LNMOEMTSC/ Announced]
-* [<will be assigned by the Wrangler> Discussion thread]
+* [https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f42-change-proposal-promote-kde-plasma-desktop-variant-to-edition-self-contained/142526 Discussion thread]
 * FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
 * Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
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 As [https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issue/504 approved by Fedora Council], this promotes the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop variant to full Edition status.
-As the variant is already release-blocking, this is principally a change for adjusting how the KDE Desktop variant is presented and promoted.
+As the variant is already release-blocking, this is mainly a change for adjusting how the KDE Desktop variant is presented and promoted.
 We have identified the following focus areas to market the KDE Plasma Desktop Edition:
-* multimedia enthusiasts (AV and gaming particularly)
+* Multimedia enthusiasts (AV and gaming particularly see: [https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/718 VRR on Wayland] or [https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/662 DRM Leasing])
-* content creators (aligning with KDE/Qt software in this space)
+* Content [https://kde.org/for/creators/ creators] (aligning with KDE/Qt software in this space such as Kdenlive, Krita, and [https://obsproject.com/ OBS Studio])
-* accessibility (aligning with upstream work to make the Linux desktop friendlier to folks of various impairments)
+* Accessibility (aligning with upstream work to make the Linux desktop friendlier to folks of various impairments such as [color]blindness, limited dexterity, and limited motor control)
-* personalization (aligning with KDE Plasma features for customizing the desktop experience)
+* Personalization (aligning with KDE Plasma features for customizing the desktop experience)
 The details of how this will be done are in the process of being fleshed out.
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 == Upgrade/compatibility impact ==
-None. This is principally a marketing change.
+None. This is mainly a marketing change.
 == How To Test ==
-Nothing to test as this is principally a marketing change.
+Nothing to test as this is mainly a marketing change.
 == User Experience ==

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