On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 16:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > This goes back to during the wheezy release cycle. There was a little > discussion around a change in tasksel [1], but rather too late in the > day for the change to make sense. Now we have rather more time, I > feel. Let's change the default desktop for installation to xfce.
Do we really need a default desktop? The only arguments in favour of it I can think of is that it spares users to make an informed decision (which might be overwhelming to a user new to Linux) and that the content of CD2 depends on it. (thanks ansgar) I understand that the both of these are good arguments, but maybe solutions can be found for both. One idea would be the design of better download pages [0] that provide minimal information about the desktop environments like a picture of the desktop and a link to the upstream project. Not sure what to do with the CD sets though. [0] Work on making the download pages easier to navigate is long overdue anyway -- Wolodja <deb...@babilen5.org> 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC
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