+++ Neil Williams [2013-10-24 18:06 +0100]: > On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:40:48 +0100 > Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> 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. > > I've been using XFCE from unstable for over a year now, I strongly > recommend this environment as the default desktop for Debian.
I've been using it for about 9 years on most of my machines (desktop/laptop/netbook/settop-box), and exclusively for the last 7 years. It works well (better now than ~9 years ago :-) and supports a range of configurations (focus-follows-mouse, click-to-focus, top panel/bottom panel/autoraise panel, raise-on-click/raise-on-focus) which is sufficient to keep most desktop users happy. Gnome applets (maybe only old-style ones?) are easy to incude, and it's generally a very boring classic desktop gui with enough flexibility not to annoy people used to a particular desktop and its behaviour. I agree it's a sensible default if we are going to pick one. Re accessibility: There is an 'accessibility' settings box with sticky keys, slow keys, bounce keys, and mouse emulation. I really don't know how that compares to the gnome options, or whether important aspects are missing in places. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- 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/20131024173752.gx7...@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk
