Hi. I want to ask the Fedora community and developers if there would be an interest in creating and maintaining an IceWM spin for X11 users (this would currently be me) or a labwc spin for Wayland users (this could potentially be me)?
Fedora already offers the best IceWM experience out of the big three Linux distro families (Debian GNU/Linux, Arch Linux and Fedora Linux) when it comes to theming and such, but the “problem” is it is just a Window Manager albeit a very Desktop Environment one.
I have kept up with the Fedora news of offering/promoting the KDE spin as a promoted/equal to the Gnome Workstation and one of the reasons of the proposal was that KDE Plasma offers an Out of the Box experience more like a “traditional desktop”.
I have noticed, playing with Fedora in virtual machines, a noticeable difference in perceived “speed” between KDE and IceWM whether it is just logging in to the system or opening the menu.
I have utilized a 5400 rpm harddrive (i.e. not SSD) for this, but also noticed the same in non-equal laptops (physical hardware) where the older and slower laptop with IceWM (HDD) logs in faster than a modern laptop with KDE (SSD).
Both on the modern Fedora 41 Core system.
IceWM and/or labwc configured with a panel and menu (both environments needing programs/applications) could be an alternative spin for users on low end hardware and/or users with performance in mind for users used to a “traditional desktop” and not tiling window managers like i3 which already have a spin.
How would one go about to ask about this in official means? I am using the Fedora Discussion forum to “lift it up”, but since I have not been a member of the GNU/Linux community in large merely a user I am lifting this question here.
I personally have no history of packaging whether it is in the .deb-format or .rpm-format, have not been involved in Free and Open Source software projects before. I would just be interested in a traditional desktop i.e. an IceWM on X11 or a labwc spin with a panel and menu on Wayland for Fedora which works on decent and recent, perhaps even “ancient”, hardware.
As of now I just use the Xfce application suite together with IceWM, but I understand that an official spin must come with its own packages. I am talking about file manager, network configuration, firewall configuration, text editor, terminal, graphical package manager etc. which of course can be more lightweight than what I currently use.
This is my first post and I created the account with only this question in mind. I want to thank the Fedora community for introducing me to IceWM (highlighted in Fedora Magazine in 2019). labwc is not something I have familiarized myself with (yet) but seems to be the Wayland alternative to a minimal stacking window manager even though it is more openbox inspired. Also excuse me if the sway spin already covers this use case (a “traditional desktop” with a panel and a menu, at the bottom of the screen/display).
Spin it up or no spin?
(Also I am not really sure what “tag” to choose for this discussion?)