Hello, Joey Hess, le Sun 13 May 2012 20:39:20 -0400, a écrit : > Neil Williams wrote: > > "supporting only the smaller/lighter desktop environments" is exactly > > what comes out of accepting that the first two options just won't be > > acceptable. Changing compression is only putting off the inevitable. > > There's *no* reason to think that GNOME or KDE are going to get back > > below the 1 CD limit at the next Debian stable release. > > > > I'd support XFCE4 as the default Graphical Desktop Environment and > > possibly putting GNOME (and KDE) as alternative options. > > > > That way, GNOME and KDE (as explicit options) should only show up in > > the list if using a medium which can provide that amount of packages. > > While I have started putting XFCE on systems I install for family etc, > I am not sure if it's really suitable yes to be the default desktop > environment. There are probably quite a lot of fit and finish issues. > Here are two major problems: > >[...] > > * There does not seem to be much accessability support in XFCE. With > gnome, we have a fully accessible system from the login manager on. > Accessability improvements are on the XFCE roadmap; this should > improve with time. http://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.10/roadmap/accessibility
Well, things are not so clear. With gnome, we *used* to have a fully accessible system from the login manager on. The gnome3 transition has brought a lot of regressions, and using XFCE as a base for an accessible desktop makes a lot of sense; at least as much it does with gnome3. Quoting the abovementioned page: “but there are a lot of parts of the interface (custom widgets, buttons without label) that are hard to access with a screen reader.” I haven't tried myself, but gnome3 most probably introduced non-accessible custom widgets, buttons without labels, etc. For instance, the alt-F2 widget, used a lot by blind people, is currently inaccessible... > I hope that we can avoid the CD size forcing the desktop for at least > one more release. Note that we had the same trouble the last two > releases, and managed to make it fit in the end both times. It looked to me like it was harder and harder each time. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120514012958.gv4...@type.famille.thibault.fr
