Post Syndicated from original https://lwn.net/Articles/931586/

Michael Catanzaro has posted an
update on the state of the GNOME core apps collection and the process
used to make changes to it.

Although most of the core app changes have gone smoothly, we ran
into some trouble replacing Terminal with Console. Console provides
a fresher and simpler user interface on top of vte, the same
terminal backend used by Terminal, so Console and Terminal share
much of the same underlying functionality. This means work of the
Terminal maintainers is actually key to the success of
Console. Using a new terminal app rather than evolving Terminal
allowed for bigger changes to the default user experience without
upsetting users who prefer the experience provided by Terminal. I
think Console is generally nicer than Terminal, but it is missing a
few features that Fedora Workstation developers thought were
important to have before replacing Terminal with Console. Long
story short: this core app change was effectively rejected by one
of our most important downstreams. Since then, Console has not seen
very much development.