Installing Fedora 39 Workstation beta results in a Gnome desktop without email client. Either Evolution or Thunderbird should be installed by default. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora 39 2. type "email" in Gnome search field Actual Results: No email client shown as search result Expected Results: Thunderbird or Evolution to be installed.
Proposed as a Blocker and Freeze Exception for 39-final by Fedora user augenauf using the blocker tracking app because: Technically, this can't be a release blocker because I couldn't find a criteria that requires an email client to be installed. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Basic_Release_Criteria#Required_applications only lists a web browser. However, Gnome as modern desktop environment should not be shipped without an email client.
This is appears to be a Gnome issue... Gnome 45 simply ships without email client. (https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2023/05/10/gnome-core-apps-update/) Maybe Fedora should add thunderbird as default.
Proposed as a Blocker for 39-final by Fedora user augenauf using the blocker tracking app because: There is no criterion to ship workstation with an email client but to make a workstation distro more complete, it should ship an email client.
My opinion (not a member of the Workstation WG): I completely disagree that we need to carry an email client in the default installation. Ten years ago, I might have agreed with you. But nowadays, the vast majority of people rely on web-based email services like GMail, Outlook 365, etc. I think it's perfectly reasonable to leave a local email client off of the default install, so long as it's easily located through the Software app for those that want it.
(In reply to Stephen Gallagher from comment #4) > My opinion (not a member of the Workstation WG): I completely disagree that > we need to carry an email client in the default installation. Ten years ago, > I might have agreed with you. But nowadays, the vast majority of people rely > on web-based email services like GMail, Outlook 365, etc. > > I think it's perfectly reasonable to leave a local email client off of the > default install, so long as it's easily located through the Software app for > those that want it. +1
This is intentional, and has been the case since Fedora 30. See https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/67 for the discussion.