On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 10:21:39PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 24 juin 2012 à 20:42 +0200, Arno Töll a écrit : > > What makes 42 window manager acceptable but not 43? > > Who said 42 is acceptable?
Sure, let's start removals with ones that hard-depend on things a window manager shouldn't touch, like network-manager. If one has to choose between working networking and a given window manager, the choice is obvious -- except maybe for newbie users, who won't understand what to do when they get hard-stumped faced with a basic task like connecting a phone via USB[1], or for less newbie ones, any bridged or multi-homed setup. So, a good deal of smaller window managers are functionally redundant and could be culled, but they at least don't break unrelated packages. Whether one prefers Gnome3 interface or something more traditional[2] is one thing, but there are technical downsides for Gnome that could be trivially fixed. And yet are not. [1]. With non-ancient udev, connecting one spawns an "usb0" interface you can configure any usual way, unless you have n-m continuously screwing with it. [2]. Let's not go into flamewars about user interface here, it has been overdone already. -- I was born an ugly, dumb and work-loving child, then an evil midwife replaced me in the crib. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120624215814.ga32...@angband.pl
