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Latest revision as of 23:43, 15 January 2025
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
Obsolete cockpit-navigator for cockpit-files due to the availability of a modern, maintained file system browser for Cockpit.
Owner
- Name: Jelle van der Waa
- Email: jvanderw@redhat.com
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
Last year the Cockpit project released a new officially supported Cockpit Files plugin intended to provide a modern alternative to the existing Cockpit navigator plugin. The latest release (14) supports everything which Cockpit navigator did except the creation of symlinks which is planned to be implemented.
Feedback
Benefit to Fedora
Cockpit navigator users will be upgraded to Cockpit files which is actively developed, automated tested and maintained by the Cockpit team.
Scope
- Proposal owners: Add "Obsoletes: cockpit-navigator" to cockpit-files and retire cockpit-navigator.
- Other developers: N/A
- Release engineering: N/A
- Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)
- Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
- Alignment with the Fedora Strategy:
Upgrade/compatibility impact
When upgrading to Fedora 42, systems with cockpit-navigator installed will be switched to cockpit-files.
How To Test
cockpit-files is available in Fedora 40 and higher.
User Experience
Replacing cockpit-navigator with cockpit-files leads to a visual change within Cockpit the Navigator menu entry will be replaced with a new File browser menu entry under Tools.
The UI of cockpit-files is different from cockpit-navigator but offers the same functionality with the exception symlink creation. cockpit-files like Cockpit uses PatternFly as UI toolkit making the user experience more consistent.
Dependencies
Contingency Plan
- Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No
Documentation
N/A (not a System Wide Change)