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As Kamil pointed out here, the release blocker criteria for Fedora could also be changed to require…
@kparal wrote in quality/blocker-review#2179 (comment):
I don't think they will disappear in the foreseeable future. However, it is possible that the graphical installation of them will no longer be possible + all pre-installed apps will be Flatpaks.
Also, all new apps that were not present in Fedora repositories before the last appstream-data update (March 2026) will be missing in GNOME Software/KDE Discover.
Yeah, sorry about not including the release criterion. Theoretically, it can break any of the following:
The last update of appstream-data was done in March 2026. AppStream metadata are a key part of the desktop experience and as such need to be updated regularly - or at least before the new Fedora…
Yes, the XDG portal afaik requires a system-wide gamemode daemon.
AFAIK, the Flatpak version of Steam can't use the RPM gamemode at all, and bundles its own.
ad 1. Forcing end-users to install things used by GUI apps/games manually using a terminal is not right.
FWIW: Totem has been Flatpak-only for years, its main branch even contained Flatpak-specific code, and it was still part of the default Fedora Workstation. When I reported some Fedora-specific…
@ngompa wrote in workstation/tickets#522 (comment):
Do you have any examples of things that were ignored? Anyway, GNOME Terminal was already awful years ago, so I really hope we will not start using it again in Fedora.
Yep, for example the container-related things. I don't dispute that. I am just pointing out that the a11y and other major issues that Console had four years ago have been resolved.
FWIW, as far as I know, most of the problems that Console had years ago have been fixed in the meantime.