A proposal has been made to integrate this desktop in Fedora

Oct 24, 2014 15:01 GMT  ·  By

The Fedora Linux distro is an operating system with a very rich history and it comes with all sorts of desktop environments. A proposition has been made now to give users a new desktop environment to play with, Pantheon.

It's possible that not too many users have ever heard of the Pantheon Desktop, despite the fact that it's quite famous in its own right. This is the desktop used by elementary OS and it's one of the prettiest around, not to mention the fact that it's also rather light.

The developers of elementary OS are making their own desktop and it was the only way to retain full control over the technology for something built from the ground up, well almost. elementary OS is based on Ubuntu after all, but the devs do have a bunch of their own apps running.

Fedora 22 might get Pantheon

Keep in mind that this is only a proposal and not something that's been decided already. It remains to be seen if the Fedora makers will want to get a relatively young desktop and implement it. So far, all of their desktops are proven solution and they have been around for a long time, which also makes them very stable.

"Pantheon Desktop is a new desktop environment being developed by the people that develop Elementary OS. It is written from scratch using Vala and the GTK3 toolkit. With regards to usability and appearance, the desktop has some similarities with GNOME Shell and Mac OS X," said Red Hat's Wesley Hearn.

The fact that Fedora is looking to expand beyond what it is offering right now is commendable, but please keep in mind that they have a very hard time releasing on time. Problems aren't usually related to the desktop environment already included, but a fresh new DE might cause some minor issue here and there.

Also, it's worth mentioning that Fedora would be the first Linux distribution to use Pantheon Desktop, outside of elementary OS of course. Their desktop is open source and it wouldn't be a problem, but for some weird reason it hasn't been done before, at least not by an important OS.

In the meantime, if you want to see what the Pantheon Desktop looks like, you can always download the latest elementary OS, in this case a Beta and give it try. It won't be exactly the same experience, mostly because it used different apps from Fedora, but it's more than enough to allow users to make a first impression.