Hi. Since some people have demanded to drop GNOME as default desktop in "my" "systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME" thread the following popped up in my mind:
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 16:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Let's change the default desktop for installation to xfce. Do we need to have a default desktop at all? I mean it's IMHO fine to select some defaults for very low level system stuff or libraries,... like Heimdal vs. MIT Kerberos, or the init system, or the initramfs toolkit... In some other places it may seem worth to select one default, but I would have some issues with it (like the "crypto consolidation"). But do we really need a default desktop environment? Can't we just let people choose during installation, present them a list with some of the key properties of the different projects? Since there are so many issues with GNOME now, not only technical but also things with respect to the work model that GNOME forces upon their users, I think that it actually is time to reconsider GNOME being the default desktop, but this doesn't necessary mean, that we need to promote another one into that position. Note that I'm talking about "default desktop" - not default widget toolkit. I can't imagine any case where it should be impossible to build one package with multiple toolkits (of course if the package supports them), but if such case should exist, then I personally think it's good to have a "default" widget set in which case I would stick with GTK. Cheers, Chris. -- 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/1382654354.1296.8.ca...@heisenberg.scientia.net
